[Nora Webster] (By: Colm Toibin) [published: October, 2014] [Paperback] [Oct 02, 2014] Colm Toibin - Softcover

Toibin Colm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670918156 ISBN 13: 9780670918157

Publisher: VIKIN, 2014

Synopsis

Paperback Colm Toibin "Nora Webster" PENGUIN BOOKS (January 1, 2014)

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Review:

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, October 2014: Atmospheric and emotional, Colm Toibin’s (Brooklyn, The Master) seventh novel is the story of a forty-year-old widow in 1960s/70s rural Ireland who’s on the verge of slipping back into the isolated life from which her husband had rescued her. Nora Webster is, like Toibin’s best characters, iconoclastic, strong and deep. When she loses her beloved Maurice to a long and horrible illness, she seems beyond help: she resents the neighbors’ well-meaning questions and concerns and she’s so grief stricken she barely notices how her children are suffering. Nora is not entirely likable—a self-centered person mired in depression rarely is. But Nora is also proud, fierce and angry—and slowly, slowly she wins you over. Even more important, she eventually finds a way to save herself. This is not a novel that makes a lot of noise—and yet it’s musical. It has a kind of deliberate, note-by-note crescendo—but very few crashing cymbals—as Nora rediscovers her love of singing, learns how art can help her navigate through grief, and how music can help even the most quiet among us to regain our voice. – Sara Nelson

About the Author:

COLM TOIBIN is the award-winning author of seven previous internationally acclaimed novels, including the Booker finalist The Blackwater Lightship; The Master, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Le Prix du meilleur livre etranger, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Novel Award, and finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and soon to be a major motion picture; and The Testament of Mary, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. His two acclaimed short story collections are The Empty Family and Mothers and Sons. He mainly lives in Dublin, Ireland..

About this edition

• Publisher: VIKIN
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0670918156
• ISBN 13: 9780670918157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310