Description
Book SynopsisColm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including
Brooklyn, the 2009 Costa Novel of the Year,
The Master, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and winner of the LA Times Book Prize and the IMPAC Book Award, and
The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize and the 2001 IMPAC Award. His non-fiction includes
Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross and
Love in a Dark Time. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.
Trade ReviewTóibín treats his subject with confidence and authority, both of which attributes are only strengthened by his moderation of tone and the depth of his compassion. He writes with rare tenderness of figures as disparate as Elizabeth Bishop and Francis Bacon, Thomas Mann and Roger Casement, Thom Gunn and Pedro Almodóvar. -- John Banville * Irish Times *
Such readings are crucial, for it is only when homosexuality is removed from the margins and placed at the very heart of the cultural canon that the world predicted by Tóibín in which “being gay will no longer involve difficulty and discrimination” will come to pass. -- Michael Arditti * The Times *
Tóibín writes with high-voltage restraint; his sentences are masterfully devoid of trickery . . . He is tuned in to the silent language of families, the messages that are unspoken and slip past the rest of the world, landing deep into the hearts of those who understand. -- Robert Sullivan * Vogue *
