Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín.
Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn to sponsor Eilis in America--to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland"--She decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.
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- ISBN: 9781439149829
- ISBN: 1439149828
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2010.
- Copyright: ©2009
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