Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín
Type
Label
Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín
Language
eng
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Brooklyn
Medium
sound recording
Music parts
not applicable
Oclc number
308176798
Responsibility statement
by Colm Tóibín
Summary
Eilis Lacey is unable to find a job in Ireland in the years following World War II. An Irish priest from Brooklyn, New York offers to sponser her to live an work in America, so she decides she must go leaving her mother and sister behind. She adapts to her new life by working in a department store and the pain of parting has subsided until she receives devastating news from home that threatens the promise of her future
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Classification
Contributor
Creator
Subject
- Irish
- Psychological fiction
- Ireland
- Audiobooks
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- Women immigrants
- Irish -- United States -- Fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- 1900 - 1999
- Audiobooks on CD
- New York (State) + New York + Brooklyn
- Love stories
- United States
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Narrator
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre6
- Subject17
- Irish
- Psychological fiction
- Ireland
- Audiobooks
- Fiction
- History
- Historical fiction
- Women immigrants
- Irish -- United States -- Fiction
- Women immigrants -- Fiction
- 1900 - 1999
- Audiobooks on CD
- New York (State) + New York + Brooklyn
- Love stories
- United States
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Narrator1
- Mapped to1