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Tóibín, Colm was born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. Son of Michael Tobin.
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The Heather Blazing (Original) THE HEATHER BLAZING (ORIGINAL) By Toibin, Colm ( Author )Oct-30-2012 Paperback
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The Blackwater Lightship By Toibin, Colm ( Author ) 2001 ) Paperback
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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin (21-May-2010) Paperback
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The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel
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Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Toibin, Colm (2010) Paperback
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The Blackwater Lightship by Toibin, Colm (2008) Paperback
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Homage to Barcelona by Toibin, Colm (2010) Paperback
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Homage to Barcelona
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This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudi, Miro, Picasso, Casals and Dali. It also explores the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years and the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Toibin witnessed in the 1970s. Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a unique Mediterranean port and an adopted home. 'Toibin has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man' Observer 'Having lived in Barcelona off and on since the 70s, Toibin knows all the fascinations of its sensuous Mediterranean history and lifestyle and "the most precious jewels in the city's treasury of bars" ...Toibin is the perfect guide' Chicago Tribune
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Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin (21-May-2010) Paperback
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The Heather Blazing: A Novel
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Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Tóibín reconstructs the history of Eamon’s relationships—with his father, his first “girl,” his wife, and the children who barely know him—and he writes about Eamon’s affection for the Irish coast with such painterly skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel of stunning power, “seductive and absorbing” (USA Today).
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Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
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Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, figures in the main whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives. Either by choice or necessity, being gay seemed to come second for many of these writers. Yet in their privates lives, and also in the spirit of their work, the laws of desire changed everything for them and made all the difference. Ranging from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar, born a hundred years later, this book studies how a changing world altered lives in ways both subtle and serious. Colm Toibin interweaves close reading of the work with detailed analysis of the personality behind the work to illuminating effect.
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The Heather Blazing
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The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of the law, he is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Toibin reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships—with his father, his first "girl," his wife, and the children who barely know him. He gives us a family as minutely realized as any of John McGahern's, and he writes about Eamon's affection for the landscape of his childhood on the east coast of Ireland with such skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel that ensnares us with its emotional intensity and dazzles with its crystalline prose. In The Heather Blazing, Colm Toibin displays once again the gifts that illuminated The South, a book described by Don DeLillo as "a grand achievement," and by John Banville as "a daring imaginative feat...a splendid first novel."
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Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Colm Toibin (21-May-2010) Paperback
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Walking along the border
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Hardcover: 159 pages Publisher: Macdonald; First Edition edition (1987) Language: English Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
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Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then set down his impressions in this beautifully written book, filled with personal detail set within its historical context. "Colm Toibin writes beautifully in a spare style that allows for plain description, high humour and effects that are carefully toned. He is at once an honest, uncertain pilgrim with a press card and a sense of devilment, and a son on an Oedipal trail". ("Irish Times"). "A mixture of autobiography, travelogue and journalism which tantalizes the reader with what it withholds as much as it entertains and instructs with what it describes..."The Sign of the Cross", like all good writing, is a treat". ("Independent on Sunday"). "This book describing Colm Toibin's journey is written with the novelist's familiar clarity and wisdom. It is as much a record of the European Catholic psyche in different political climates as it is an introspective pilgrimage to see what stuff Toibin's own faith is made of". ("Daily Telegraph").
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Bad Blood : A Walk along the Irish Border
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Walking along the border by Toibin, Colm (1987) Hardcover
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Colm Toibin Collection 6 Books Set Pack RRP: £ 47.94 (The Blackwater Lightship, Bad Blood, The Heather Blazing, The South, The Story Of The Night, Mothers And Sons) (Colm Toibin Collection)
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Colm Toibin Collection 6 Books Set RRP: £ 47.94 Brand New Titles in This Set The Blackwater Lightship Bad Blood The Heather Blazing The South The Story Of The Night Mothers And Sons Description One by One Titles The Blackwater Lightship This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in its emotion and spare in its construction ...Toibin has crafted an unmissable read' - "Sunday Herald". In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying.Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen and come to terms with one another.'It is in his emotional choreography that Toibin shows himself to be an exceptional writer. Helen is estranged from both her mother and grandmother ...Toibin helps them make peace - and he does it beautifully' - "Sunday Telegraph". 'He writes in spare, powerful prose and he is truly perceptive about family relationships which, at times, makes reading his stories incredibly painful.But this is a beautiful novel' - "Belfast News". 'We shall be reading and living with "The Blackwater Lightship" in twenty years' - "Independent on Sunday". 'Rises to heights of extraordinary beauty' - "Independent on Sunday".
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The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin (30-Oct-2012) Paperback
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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Toibin, Colm (2001) Paperback
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The Kilfenora Teaboy: A Study of Paul Durcan
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Over the past twenty years, Paul Durcan has become an essential presence in Irish life, and is internationally known for his poetry. This is the first full-length study of his work, a critical evaluation of the essential themes in his poems. Contributions from fellow poets (Derek Mahon, Ruth Padel, Eamon Grennan) and critics (Edna Longley, Brian Kennedy, Fintan O'Toole) make this a vital and significant assessment of one of the most original poets writing in the English language. The book's title is that of one of his most famous poems.
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Penguin Book of Irish Fiction Hardcover - February 28, 2000
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Brooklyn: A Novel
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By Colm Toibin - The Blackwater Lightship (5.6.2001)
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Colm Tóibín
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Bachelor, University College Dublin, 1975. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Uviv. Ulster, Ireland, 2008.
Career
Teacher Dublin School English, Barcelona, 1975—1978. Writer Hibernia, The Sunday Tribune, Ireland. Features editor In Dublin, 1981—1982.
Editor Magill magazine, 1982—1985. Journalist, columnist Dublin Sunday Indiana. Regular contributor London Review of Books, since 1994.
Fellow Center Scholars & Writers New York Public Library., 2000. Visiting professor Stanford University, California, University Texas, Austin, Princeton University, New Jersey. Visiting lecturer Boston College, New York University, College Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
(Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the gre...)
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The Heather Blazing: A Novel
(Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a compl...)
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The Kilfenora Teaboy: A Study of Paul Durcan
(Over the past twenty years, Paul Durcan has become an ess...)
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Homage to Barcelona
(This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a...)
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Walking along the border
(Hardcover: 159 pages Publisher: Macdonald; First Edition ...)
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The Heather Blazing
( The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill wit...)
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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe
(Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips...)
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Colm Toibin Collection 6 Books Set Pack RRP: £ 47.94 (The Blackwater Lightship, Bad Blood, The Heather Blazing, The South, The Story Of The Night, Mothers And Sons) (Colm Toibin Collection)
(Colm Toibin Collection 6 Books Set RRP: £ 47.94 Brand New...)
- MARTYRS AND METAPHORS
- The Heather Blazing (Original) THE HEATHER BLAZING (ORIGINAL) By Toibin, Colm ( Author )Oct-30-2012 Paperback
- The Blackwater Lightship By Toibin, Colm ( Author ) 2001 ) Paperback
- The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin (21-May-2010) Paperback
- The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel
- (Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar) Author: Colm Toibin published on (February, 2003)
- Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Toibin, Colm (2010) Paperback
- The Blackwater Lightship by Toibin, Colm (2008) Paperback
- Homage to Barcelona by Toibin, Colm (2010) Paperback
- Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin (21-May-2010) Paperback
- Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border by Colm Toibin (21-May-2010) Paperback
- Bad Blood : A Walk along the Irish Border
- Walking along the border by Toibin, Colm (1987) Hardcover
- The Heather Blazing by Colm Toibin (30-Oct-2012) Paperback
- The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Toibin, Colm (2001) Paperback
- Penguin Book of Irish Fiction Hardcover - February 28, 2000
- Brooklyn: A Novel
- By Colm Toibin - The Blackwater Lightship (5.6.2001)
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Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar
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