Colm Tóibín
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"The Magician opens at the turn of the twentieth century in a provincial German city where the young boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative, conventional father and a Brazilian mother, exotic and unpredictable, who will never fit in. He hides both his artistic aspirations and his homosexual desires from this father, and his sexuality from everyone. He longs for the charismatic, beautiful, rich, cultured young Jewish man, but marries his twin...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
81 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
A provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existence in Ephesus years after her son's crucifixion and struggling with guilt, anger, and feelings that her son is not the son of God and that His sacrifice was not for a worthy cause.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
A collection of short fiction includes "The Street," in which Pakistani workers in Barcelona pursue a taboo affair; and "Two Women," in which a taciturn Irish set designer confronts repressed emotions while working in her homeland.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"'It all started with my balls.' So begins Colm Tóibín’s fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Tóibín survives, but he has entered, as he says, 'the age of one ball.' The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and ’60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of Tóibín’s novels and stories, including Brooklyn,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21-24 cm
Description
... In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin captures the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. The emoyional intensity of Toibin's portrait of James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams...
6) Vinegar Hill
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Publisher
Beacon Press Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 CDs (1 hr., 46 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tóibín examines a wide range of subjects—politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, and facing mortality.
7) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Eilis Lacey moves from Ireland to 1950s Brooklyn, she finds romance and new life, but events in Ireland call her back home and she finds she must choose between the two countries and lives she has made in each.
8) Brooklyn
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is the emotional tale of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant building a new life in 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland for the shores of New York City and is soon swept up by the intoxicating charms of new love. But when her new life is disrupted by her past, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
"Fans of the novel, of which I'm one, may find the film sweeter and more romantic...