{"product_id":"the-news-from-dublin-stories","title":"The News from Dublin: Stories","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMothers and Sons \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Brilliant... transfixing.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Though each story stands alone--as do the characters--the magic of \n\u003ci\u003eMothers and Sons \u003c\/i\u003eis how beautifully they come together as a whole.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Everything we've come to expect of Tóibín: chilled, sharp prose revealing complex, contradictory feelings, and an equally acute eye for the way character and environment trigger action... A beautiful, seamless, affecting piece of writing.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Colm Tóibín is one of those extraordinary artists whose work is a kind of dramatic dialogue between an icily observant intellect and a tender heart. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eMothers and Sons\u003c\/i\u003e establishes him as a short story writer of first rank.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An intense, gorgeous collection of thematically linked stories.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this beautifully unshowy book, Colm Tóibín reveals himself once again as a writer who understands the tenuousness of love and comfort--and, after everything, its necessity.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"These nine tales read like miniature novels; they are so assuredly paced and plangent in tone that it is no exaggeration to compare them to Joyce's classic \n\u003ci\u003eDubliners.\u003c\/i\u003e\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Finely crafted, with vivid characters and original stories.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tóibín teases the drama out of the everyday while bringing the extraordinarily dramatic down to a scale that's both easy to grasp and hard to avoid.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wonderfully satisfying and engrossing.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tóibín is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Every character, every relationship, is made up of the accretions of an undescribed but palpable past, something that makes them both vividly and solidly real to the reader, and as mysterious as other people always are.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A deeply satisfying and memorable read.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e (Toronto)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Magic... haunting, evocative, sad, rich with complex humanity.\" \n\u003cb\u003e --\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Love in all its guises--nostalgic, unabashedly erotic, perhaps even autobiographical--can be found in \n\u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family, \u003c\/i\u003e including a deft reimagining of Lady Gregory's tryst with the poet Wilfred Blunt, recounted with more than one Jamesian flourish.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Houston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Nine achingly beautiful stories... With \n\u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family \u003c\/i\u003eTóibín takes the morass of humanity and with infinite compassion distills it into art.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" \n\u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tóibín generates drama and suspense without ever sacrificing the intensely lyrical writing that he has always delivered.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mr. Tóibín is at his best dealing with matters of the heart and soul... A satisfying test of intellect and sympathy.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"On the evidence of the stories collected in \n\u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--American-Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Rich with tender surprises... Tóibín's voice is more assured with every new book he brings out.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The work of a supreme writer who only improves.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A collection that will only further fuel Tóibín's ascent through English fiction.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Exquisite.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Toronto Sun\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e (Canada)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I was captivated. A wonderful page-turner to start your summer reading.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Oprah Winfrey\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A brilliant novel. Beautifully crafted... makes for a riveting, wonderful read.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Elizabeth Strout, \u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Deeply felt but resolutely unsentimental... Tóibín uses masterly restraint to dramatize how lives can be destabilized by desire.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e --The New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Stunning.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--People\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tóibín, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what's next.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e --Los Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Momentous and hugely affecting. These pendant novels, will be the fiction for which this wonderful writer is best remembered.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tóibín has created a novel not to be missed.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Dazzling yet devastating... Tóibín is simply one of the world's best living literary writers...\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Boston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Entrancing... riveting from the first page.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e --The Economist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"About secrets and dreams and the conflict of desire over duty... \n\u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonder, rich with yearning and regret.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Minneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e --Glamour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The quiet, moving story is told from the perspectives of different characters, each with a heartbreaking inability to express what they truly desire.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--AARP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Fifteen years ago, Colm Tóibín won readers' hearts with his best-selling novel \n\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e. Now, with the sequel, \n\u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e, he just might break them... Tóibín writes beautifully about the struggle between the comfort of the familiar and the hope for something better.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Columbia Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Tóibín's latest sees the return of one of his most beloved heroines from his novel \n\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn \u003c\/i\u003eand deftly explores the longings of a woman who finds herself alone in her tilted marriage.\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e --The Chicago Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including \n\u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; \n\u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; \n\u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; \n\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Costa Book Award; and \n\u003ci\u003eNora Webster, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIn 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom Colm Tóibín, \"one of the world's best living literary writers,\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), a brilliant new collection of nine short stories\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--many never before published.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColm 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\" ( \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), 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 \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in Spain, Ireland, and America, these gorgeous stories explore longing, estrangement from family, grief, the pull of the past, and complex, transcendent love. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This collection includes: \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"The Journey to Galway\" (originally published in Faber Anthology) \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"A Free Man\" (new) \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"Sleep\" (originally published in \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"The News from Dublin\" (originally published in Faber Anthology) \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"A Sum of Money\" (new) \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"Barton Springs\" (originally published in Marlene Dumas catalogue) \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"Summer of '38\" (originally published in \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"Five Bridges\" (originally published in \n\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) \n\u003cbr\u003e - \"The Catalan Girls\" (new)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/26\/2026 (EAN 9781476785141, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781476785141, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781476785141, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eToibin, Colm\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tColm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including \n\u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; \n\u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; \n\u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; \n\u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Costa Book Award; and \n\u003ci\u003eNora Webster, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. 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