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The News from Dublin : Stories.
From Colm Toibin comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America - about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771040078
- Physical Description: 320 pages ; 2 x 14 cm
- Publisher: Canada : McClelland & Stewart, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | FICTION / Literary FICTION / Short Stories (single author) FICTION / World Literature / Ireland / 20th Century |
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- 2 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | ON ORDER | pr08335149 | FICTION | On order | - |
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From Colm TóibÃn, âone of the worldâs best living literary writersâ (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and Americaâabout the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love.
Celebrated as âhis generationâs most gifted writer of loveâs complicated, contradictory powerâ (Los Angeles Times), Colm TóibÃn is a master of short fiction as well as the novel, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras.
   In âThe Journey to Galway,â a mother who has learned of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in WWII, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. âSleep,â originally published in The New Yorker, explores the rift between two lovers as one of them cannot reckon with his grief and fear after the death of his brother. Death, again, is a central character in the title story, âThe News from Dublin,â as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin to try to save his younger brother who is dying of tuberculosis. Maurice must petition the health minister for access to a new experimental drug, and this is the only hope.
   TóibÃnâs stories are rich with the complexities of family dynamics, the haunting pull of the past, and the quiet revelations that define our lives. His characters, whether navigating the aftermath of war, or forbidden love, or the desires of a girl in Catalan, or the quiet struggles mundane life, are rendered with illuminating, unforgettable empathy and insight.
   The News from Dublin is an exquisite introduction to TóibÃnâs short fiction for new readers who may have discovered TóibÃn with the publication of Long Island, and a glorious new collection for longtime fans of this âachingly beautiful writer…with infinite compassionâ (The Miami Herald).
