![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Brooklyn begins, in the early 1950s, Eilis is living with her more glamorous sister Rose and their widowed mother. And, like several Tóibí*protagonists before her, Eilis Lacey comes from his own home town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford. His prose, always determinedly unshowy, is here distilled into its purest form yet, and so is his long-running theme of people's inability to make sense of their lives. In fact, what proves far more influential is the previous fiction of Colm Tóibín. Given that Colm Tóibín's last novel, the Booker-shortlisted The Master, was about Henry James, it's tempting to try to detect some Jamesian influences at work in Brooklyn – especially as the main character is a young woman travelling between Europe and America. ![]()
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