Synopsis
Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.
A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times.
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Details
23 May 2024
304 pages
9781035029440
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Long Island is the best new novel I’ve read in years – and it’s as persuasive an argument in defence of the unique capability of the novel form as you could ever hope to findMegan Nolan, Telegraph
You don't have to have read Brooklyn to enjoy the many pleasures of Long Island. It is a masterful novel full of longing and regret. A tale of lovers reconnecting, of compromise, and the settling that can come later in life. Intensely moving and yet full of restraint, I was sad to turn the final pageDouglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
A brilliant novel . . . it is beautifully crafted and makes for a riveting, wonderful readElizabeth Strout, Observer
Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tóibín at his bestRobbie Millen, The Times
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