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The Empty Family

The Empty Family

Toibin, Colm

Paperback

Series: Bestselling Short Stories

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 143919596X
ISBN13: 9781439195963
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Jan 3 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
The bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín, returns with a stunning collection of stories--a book that's both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure (The Seattle Times).

Critics praised Brooklyn as a beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s. In The Empty Family, Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart (The Observer, London).

In the breathtaking long story The Street, Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona--a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In Two Women, an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. Silence is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party.

The Empty Family will further cement Tóibín's status as his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power (Los Angeles Times).

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