Colm Tóibín

The Blackwater Lightship

Irish family gathers as matriarch approaches death

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Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín

Irish novelist and essayist whose Brooklyn and The Master are celebrated explorations of Irish emigrant experience and artistic vocation. His sparse, lyrical prose has made him one of the most admired novelists of his generation. He is Ireland's most internationally celebrated living novelist.

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