Colm Tóibín

Giller Prize winner Elizabeth Hay hosts a conversation with Ireland’s Colm Tóibín , the award-winning author of The Master, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Le prix du meilleur livre étranger, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and, Brooklyn , winner of the Costa Novel Award.

Colm recently published New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers & Their Families, a fascinating, informative, and entertaining collection of essays on the intricacies of family relationships in literature and writing. His latest novel is The Testament of Mary. It it, Mary, who we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone.

Special thanks to Sean Murray, our Author Patron for Colm Tóibín.

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Description: Pick up a best-selling book that will take you to a different place or time. Book to be discussed - Brooklyn by Colm Tolbin.

Location: Meeting Room A
Other Information:You are welcome to bring your lunch.
Library staff will assist participants in obtaining books for the discussion groups. Sign up at the Fiction, Movies and Music Desk at the library, or call 328-2324.

Presenter: Lynette Perry (MDGentleReader)… (more)

Texts in the City: Brooklyn
The Wheeler Centre, 4:30PM - 5:15PM, Tuesday 12 February 2013
Studying a book or film can be a short-cut to consigning it to boredom. But our Texts in the City series – a gift to students, their teachers and lifelong learners – brings the VCE English and Literature lists to life.

Each week, our hosts – authors Lili Wilkinson and Tony Birch – will interview experts intimately familiar with the texts, unearthing those hidden gems that could help your essay shine.

This week, Tony Birch and Corrie Perkin will discuss Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín. (rodneyvc)… (more)

Join us for a reading group discussion of Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin!

Venue: Left Bank Books - Central West End (downstairs)

Each of the nine stories in this beautifully written, intensely intimate collection centers on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power between mother and son, or changes the way they perceive one another.

Location: Street: Left Bank Books - Central West End Additional: 399 N. Euclid Ave. City: Saint Louis, Province: Missouri Postal Code: 63108 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Diaspora will discuss The Empty Family: Stories, by Colm Toibin. Available in paperback. Please come at least a couple of minutes early (before the store closes at 7 pm), so no one will need to come to the door to let you in. If you are late, though, there’s a doorbell to the left of the front door.

Location: Street: 345 S 12th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19107-5907 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

The Testament of Mary Colm Toibin “Immensely gifted and accomplished” (Washington Post) Irish novelist Colm Tóibín's books include The South, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus First Fiction Award; The Master, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize and the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year; and Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year. His other books include All a Novelist Needs, a collection of essays on Henry James, and The Empty Family, a collection of short stories that examine the trials and tribulations of the baby boom generation. In his haunting new book, The Testament of Mary, Tóibín reimagines the life of the Christian and cultural icon Mary. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) Tickets on sale August 24 at 10:00 a.m. This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Tuesday, October 16, 7:30 PM Greenlight Fiction Book Group discusses Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Led by Greenlight staff, this book group discusses paperback fiction; in 2012, the group is focusing on award winners and under-the-radar gems. For September, the book group discusses Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn, winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction. “One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.

Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes The Diesel Readers (formerly Book Group #3) back to the store to discuss Colm Toibin's The master on Monday, March 12th at 7pm.

Beautiful and profoundly moving, The master is a fictionalized account of the life of Henry James. In stunningly resonant prose, Colm Toibin captures the loneliness of a Master of psychological subtlety, whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed those he tried to love.

This event is free and all are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)