The Blackwater Lightship - by Colm Toibin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The Blackwater Lightship" is set in the early 1990s in an old house in Ireland. Helen and her family have gathered there to care for her brother, who is dying of AIDS. A portrayal of a family at war with itself, whose storytelling and truth revealing may be able to heal all their wounds.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From the author of <i>The Master </i>and <i>Brooklyn</i>, Colm Tóibín weaves together the lives of three generations of estranged women as they reunite to witness and mourn the death of a brother, a son, and a grandson.</b> <p/>It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora, have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. <p/>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, <i>The Blackwater Lightship</i> is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Tóibín explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. Hailed as a genuine work of art <i>(Chicago Tribune), </i> this is a novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Mark Levin <i>Men's Journal</i> Tóibín is a superb technician with a brave soul. <i>The Blackwater Lightship</i> is a great and humanizing novel.<br><br>Robert Sullivan <i>Vogue</i> Tóibín writes with high-voltage restraint.<br><br><i>The Wall Street Journal</i> <i>The Blackwater Lightship</i> is the most perfect work on the Booker list...The prose is economical and deft, and the book is rich with entrancing stories.<br><br>Francine Prose <i>Elle</i> Beautifully crafted...spare and devastating...<br><br>Jim Marks <i>The Washington Post Book World</i> ...supple, beautifully modulated prose, complex relationships and careful construction...a powerful and absorbing novel.<br><br>Judy Lightfoot <i>The Seattle Times</i> So much is here and you long to grasp it whole...the best new novel this reviewer has read all year.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including <i>The Magician</i>, his most recent novel; <i>The Master</i>, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; <i>Brooklyn</i>, winner of the Costa Book Award; <i>The Testament of Mary</i>; and<i> Nora Webster</i>, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
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