
Long Island
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Jessie Buckley
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Auteur(s):
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Colm Toibin
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OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * Named a Most Anticipated Book by The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, and more.
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work twenty years later.
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.
One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting.
Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis’ life are thunderous and dangerous, and there’s no one more deft than Tóibín at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she’d lost.
©2024 Colm Toibin (P)2024 McClelland & StewartCe que les critiques en disent
“A brilliant, compelling and utterly human story. . . . Long Island is at once about freedom, a longing for it and its costs, and the eventual responsibility that conditions and limits it. This decades-later sequel is a natural and fitting second act after Brooklyn.”—Globe and Mail
“You don't have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint, I was sad to turn the final page.”—Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
“Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his best."—The Times
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- Ml
- 2024-05-16
wonderful sequel
I was utterly absorbed into this novel. I hope there will be one more!!
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- Ann H
- 2024-07-08
finding your inner strength
great character development and relatable daily life ups and downs with a background of what should you do or say
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- Alex D.
- 2024-10-08
Overdramatic
While the story itself is quite interesting and reflects the complexity of human feelings, the constant sighs and overdramatic rasping voice of a narrator plus the abrupt open ending are what deserved 3 stars in my opinion
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- Elle
- 2024-05-08
A brilliant follow up to Brooklyn
This is so well written and so well performed.
It is very hard not to drop spoilers, so I won’t. But each character is wonderfully fleshed out, so much so you almost feel like what it is like to be them. It is emotionally intimate. I hope the author continues the story of Eilis further in her life.
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- dabbler
- 2025-02-06
A great audio choice!
Tension drew me in at the very beginning. Toibin creates a dynamic triangle with alternating perspectives and needs, plus many secondary characters, all narrated with sympathy and humour as needed. The mother is quite a piece of work! Setting in Ireland captured so well too.
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- TJ
- 2025-03-26
Rich story full of ‘what would I do??’ moments.
Loved the assortment of characters (wonderfully narrated!), the visuals of the towns and scenery and all the ‘oh!’ moments (happy, sad and maddening) throughout the story. Life and love are complicated and messy and this book takes you along for the ride as a handful of people try to sort it out.
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- Sasha
- 2024-06-10
Boring
Stagnant characters, boring story, no substance. What a let down after “Brooklyn”! I was dissappointed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2024-10-03
Not worth it
When I started the book, I genuinely thought I was going to enjoy it. But once the author sent the main character back home, the book was bland, and boring. The end of the book leaves me no desire to finish the series.
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- Shrin
- 2025-05-05
Meh. Slow, boring and no redeemable characters
I was looking forward to a book where I liked the people in it.
All of the main characters were weak and wishy washy.
I never read Brooklyn but I watched the movie twice and enjoyed it so thought a follow up book would be good.
Nope.
By the ending it appears there could be a sequel, but I have no desire to find out what happens to anyone in this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2024-06-12
Bitter and slow
I really didn’t enjoy this book. I found the reading monotonous and tedious. And couldn’t relate to any of the characters. I found them shallow and pointless.
I rarely make a review like this because I respect the effort of the author, but this book had so much promise for me and was such a disappointment.
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