Tóibín, Colm

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Brooklyn

A beautifully performed rendition of Tóibín’s acclaimed novel. Listeners will hang on every word.
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays

This absorbing collection, so intimately told, is an excellent choice for any library seeking to expand on its religious and social commentary. Tóibín’s fans will want to dig in.
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Vinegar Hill: Poems

A novelist’s poetry is, with a very few exceptions, a pleasure for the completist, but in this collection Tóibín supplies poems that should interest readers beyond his usual audience.
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce

Well written but based entirely on secondary sources, thus providing no new information. [See Prepub Alert, 4/9/18.]
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House of Names

This extraordinary book reads like a pristine translation rather than a retelling, conveying both confounded strangeness and timeless truths about love's sometimes terrible and always exhilarating energies. [See Prepub Alert, 11/14/16.]
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On Elizabeth Bishop

Recommended for followers of both writers.
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Nora Webster

Highly recommended for all collections of literary fiction.
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The Testament of Mary

Superbly read, as expected, by the incomparable Meryl Streep, this audiobook is recommended for two groups of individuals, those interested in a personal reexamination of implicit church doctrine and/or those just interested in a good story about a troubled mother's life. ["A moving and thought-provoking take on the life of a religious icon," read the review of the Scribner hc, LJ 9/1/12.]
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New Ways To Kill Your Mother

For the serious student of literature, this collection is worth the effort. [See Prepub Alert, 1/21/12.]
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