AltWeeklies Wire
Colm Toibin's New Novel Is Quiet and Thankfully Unsentimentalnew
Brooklyn is a quiet, charming novel written with a masterful hand about a girl struggling to understand her new emerging self in a new postwar world.
New Haven Advocate |
John Stoehr |
05-19-2009 |
Fiction
Mum on the Mindnew
Toibin captures exquisite Irish misery in his new collection of shorts.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
03-02-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Colm Toibin, Mothers and Sons
Tales by Toibinnew
Quaint title aside, these stories -- Toibin's first collection -- aren't celebrations of Hallmark-card family unity, complete with bucolic Irish settings.
NOW Magazine |
Glenn Sumi |
02-05-2007 |
Fiction
Tags: Colm Toibin, Mothers and Sons
