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The Blackwater Lightship

By Colm Toibin

Book information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2001
ISBN
0743203313, 9780743203319
Google Books ID
V9rUaWjCelwC
Open Library ID
OL23069339M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
213 kB (218238 bytes)
Edition
1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Ed
Pages
288\0
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Tóibín explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. Hailed as "a genuine work of art" (Chicago Tribune), this is a novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds.

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