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Colm Tóibín’s exquisitely written new stories, set in present-day Ireland, 1970s Spain and nineteenthcentury England, are about people linked by love, loneliness and desire. Tóibín is a master at portraying mute emotion, intense intimacies that remain unacknowledged or unspoken.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 245
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart, Scribner
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781442339927
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