![]() ![]() We follow her across the sea and onto what seems like the gallows of loneliness. In Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey leaves Enniscorthy, Ireland (Toibin's hometown), for Brooklyn in the early 1950s. It was suggestive of the intimacy he achieves in his literature. But what I remember best, besides Toibin's warmth, is his fountain pen and notebook. He has a wonderful old house near the center of town, full of paintings and full of light. I had the chance to meet Toibin in Dublin a year or two after our first interview. But both of his subsequent novels are stories of exile: The Master, about Henry James, the American writer abroad and now, Brooklyn. It was a contemporary tale set in Ireland, about three generations of women caring for a man dying of AIDS. I first interviewed Toibin in 1999, for the novel BlackWater Lightship. His fiction and nonfiction works have wandered far. He is 53, a stocky man with a large, bald head and expressive eyes. Read an excerpt of Colm Toibin's latest novel, Brooklyn.Ĭolm Toibin's literary career has been gathering in force and reputation over the decades. ![]()
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