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Eilis Lacey takes advantage of a sponsorship that will allow her to escape the troubled economy of Ireland and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and after leaving her family behind, Eilis gets a job in a department store and falls in love with Tony, a man with a big Italian family, but the serendipity of her new life is shattered by bad news from Ireland.
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Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Brooklyn
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Colm Tóibín
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 262
- ISBN10
- 1501106473
- ISBN13
- 9781501106477
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Women, USA, Life, New York, Young Adult Romance, Ireland, America, Teens, Irish Literature, Home, Migration, Emigration, Emancipation, Exile, 1950s, Brooklyn
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Brooklyn
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- Eilis Lacey takes advantage of a sponsorship that will allow her to escape the troubled economy of Ireland and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood, and after leaving her family behind, Eilis gets a job in a department store and falls in love with Tony, a man with a big Italian family, but the serendipity of her new life is shattered by bad news from Ireland.