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Review Quotes: Review Quotes: Praise for The Empty Family "A perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure." --The Seattle Times "Magic... haunting, evocative, sad, rich with complex humanity." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Tóibín's attention to language equals the empathy he pays his thoroughly authentic characters, so summarizing their stories only threatens to blunt their exquisiteness, because half the pleasure of reading them comes from absorbing the complicated structures he weaves... He is in top form here." --San Francisco Chronicle "Love in all its guises--nostalgic, unabashedly erotic, perhaps even autobiographical--can be found in The Empty Family, including a deft reimagining of Lady Gregory's tryst with the poet Wilfred Blunt, recounted with more than one Jamesian flourish." --Vogue "Tóibín lures us into stories with characters who experience true revelation, no matter how quiet or small. With masterful restraint, he lays bare the drama of everyday life." --Houston Chronicle "Nine achingly beautiful stories... With The Empty Family Tóibín takes the morass of humanity and with infinite compassion distills it into art." --The Miami Herald " The Empty Family reminds us that a short story is something altogether different: a work of art, like a painting or a beautiful song. Ernest Hemingway famously said that in fiction nine-tenths of the story should lie below the surface... Tóibín masterfully achieves this goal." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Tóibín generates drama and suspense without ever sacrificing the intensely lyrical writing that he has always delivered." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "With a spare, eloquent style, Tóibín guides us through hotel lobbies and pensiones from Dublin to Barcelona. He directs our attention to estranged family members, divorcées and Muslim immigrants, catching each of them at the moment in which they are forced to reckon with their pasts." --Los Angeles Times "Mr. Tóibín is at his best dealing with matters of the heart and soul... A satisfying test of intellect and sympathy." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "On the evidence of the stories collected in The Empty Family, Colm Tóibín must be seriously considered one of today's great short story writers... Tóibín is shaping up to be the early twenty-first century's E. M. Forster." --American-Statesman "Rich with tender surprises... Tóibín's voice is more assured with every new book he brings out." --The Economist "The work of a supreme writer who only improves." --The Times (London) "A collection that will only further fuel Tóibín's ascent through English fiction." --The Independent "Exquisite." --The Daily Telegraph "Narratives of remarkable scope and variety... Tóibín describes the experiences of the young and the very old, homosexual and heterosexual, Irish and Spanish, all with equal assurance." --The Spectator "Colm Tóibín is one of the best storytellers writing today... His prose is pitch perfect, each word, each phrase carefully chosen and aptly applied... In this collection Colm Tóibín is at his masterful best." --Toronto Sun "When Tóibín pulls a fully convincing twist on the convention, it's like witnessing a magician pull off an especially deft trick... The work of a modern master." --The Gazette (Canada) Review Quotes: Praise for Long Island "I was captivated. A wonderful page-turner to start your summer reading." --Oprah Winfrey "A brilliant novel. Beautifully crafted... makes for a riveting, wonderful read." --Elizabeth Strout, The Guardian "Eilis is an interesting and vivid character because she manages to make her destiny her choice... In her own mind, and in the eyes of sympathetic readers, she is free." --New York Times Book Review "Deeply felt but resolutely unsentimental... Tóibín uses masterly restraint to dramatize how lives can be destabilized by desire." --The New Yorker "Stunning." --People "Tóibín, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what's next." --Los Angeles Times "Momentous and hugely affecting. These pendant novels, will be the fiction for which this wonderful writer is best remembered." --Wall Street Journal "Tóibín has created a novel not to be missed." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Rich and doubly suspenseful... Tóibín, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what's next." --Los Angeles Times "Dazzling yet devastating... Tóibín is simply one of the world's best living literary writers..." --The Boston Globe "Entrancing... riveting from the first page." --The Economist "About secrets and dreams and the conflict of desire over duty... Long Island is a wonder, rich with yearning and regret." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "Tóibín's storytelling is rich and full of tension as he explores the complexities of life, the decisions we make, and the consequences that result." --Glamour "The quiet, moving story is told from the perspectives of different characters, each with a heartbreaking inability to express what they truly desire." --AARP "Fifteen years ago, Colm Tóibín won readers' hearts with his best-selling novel Brooklyn. Now, with the sequel, Long Island, he just might break them... Tóibín writes beautifully about the struggle between the comfort of the familiar and the hope for something better." --Columbia Magazine "Tóibín's latest sees the return of one of his most beloved heroines from his novel Brooklyn and deftly explores the longings of a woman who finds herself alone in her tilted marriage." --The Chicago Review of Books Biographical Note: Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022-2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Publisher Marketing: From Colm Tóibín, "one of the world's best living literary writers," (The Boston Globe), a brilliant new collection of nine short stories --many never before published. Colm Tóibín is a master of the short story, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. Described as "his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" ( Los Angeles Times), he brings to these stories an astonishing clarity and compassion. In "The Journey to Galway," a mother learns of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in WWII, and must travel from Dublin to share the news with his wife and their three now fatherless children. In "Sleep," published in The New Yorker, two lovers part as one of them cannot acknowledge or face his grief and fear after the death of his brother. And in the title story, death, again, is a central character as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin from Enniscorthy to petition the health minister for access to a new drug being tested for tuberculosis. Maurice's younger brother is dying of TB, and this is the only hope. Set in Spain, Ireland, and America, these gorgeous stories explore longing, estrangement from family, grief, the pull of the past, and complex, transcendent love. This collection includes: - "The Journey to Galway" (originally published in Faber Anthology) - "A Free Man" (new) - "Sleep" (originally published in The New Yorker) - "The News from Dublin" (originally published in Faber Anthology) - "A Sum of Money" (new) - "Barton Springs" (originally published in Marlene Dumas catalogue) - "Summer of '38" (originally published in The New Yorker) - "Five Bridges" (originally published in The New Yorker) - "The Catalan Girls" (new) Review Citations:
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