Brooklyn
a novel
Scribner trade paperback edition.
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Word Count
65,500 words, Guess
Page Count
262 pages
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- Internet Archivebrooklynnovel0000toib_s1z9
- ISBN-101501106473
- ISBN-139781501106477
- OCLC Control Number894747250
- Better World Books9781501106477
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26887308M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR6070.O455 B76 2015
- LCCPR6070.O455
Description
In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.
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