Colm Tóibín
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| Original Title: | The Blackwater Lightship |
| ISBN: | 0743203313 (ISBN13: 9780743203319) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Ireland |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1999), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2001) |
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It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Tóibín explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself.
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| Title | : | The Blackwater Lightship |
| Author | : | Colm Tóibín |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | June 5th 2005 by Scribner (first published August 13th 1999) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. LGBT. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 5317 Users | 513 ReviewsCommentary Of Books The Blackwater Lightship
Declan, approaching 30, is dying of AIDS in Southern Ireland. His father had died young too, of cancer. He wants to see that part of the coast he remembers as a child when he and his sister Helen stayed with their grandparents, throughout their father's prolonged final illness at hospital in Dublin. It is in these waters that the Blackwater Lightship once shone, a secondary source of light alongside the more powerful Tusker lighthouse.His mettlesome granny, Dora, now widowed, is host in herAnyone who liked Nora Webster will recognise this - it shares its Wexford coast location, which clearly has important childhood memories for Tóibín. This was a beautiful book, my only criticism is that its plot seems very similar to the earlier and equally rewarding The Heather Blazing.
You can't go wrong reading one of Colin Toibin's books. His elegant, understated, gorgeous writing style mesmerizes the reader. This book also realistically deals with family and friends dealing with the imminent death of a beloved young man from AIDS. The past and unresolved family issues are dealt with in an organic, natural manner. Loved this book.
After Brooklyn and Testament of Mary, Toibin is at the top of my list of feminist writers. This novel focuses on a family and friends brought together by impending death. Helen's brother, Declan, is dying of Aids. He decides he wants to spend a few days at his maternal grandmother's house with Helen, his mother and a couple of friends. Helen has been estranged from her mother and grandmother for over a decade, and Declan had never come out to his family. This big secret bursts out of the closet,
This is a powerful, quiet, beautfully constructed book. Anyone who has mother/daughter issues will be very touched by the characters and their complex stories.
When I was young, lying in bed [...] I used to believe that Tuscar was a man and the Blackwater Lightship was a woman and they were both sending signals to each other and to other lighthouses, like mating calls. Colm Toibin entered my top-5 squad of contemporary writers with his haunting rendition of the Atreides tragedy House of Names. I wanted to start my research of his work with a number of his earlier novels before I move on to Brooklyn and The Blackwater Lightship came my way. It was one
In The Story of the Night, Colm Tóibín told the stories of men living with AIDS in New York in the late 80s. In The Blackwater Lightship, he transposes this storyline to Ireland in the late 90s, a vastly different setting. Helen, a school principal, discovers that her brother Declan is in hospital with AIDS. She has to work out how to tell their mother and grandmother about his diagnoses which he's apparently had "for years". Published just six years after Ireland's decision to decriminalise
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