251 pages
English language
Published April 12, 2009 by Viking, Penguin Viking, VIKING, Penguin Group.
Brooklyn
by Colm Tóibín
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In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.
Subjects
- Irish
- Fiction
- Social life and customs
- Historical Fiction
- FICTION / Literary
- Manners and customs
Places
- New York (State)
- New York
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Ireland
- Brooklyn