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Plot Summary. Colm Tóibín’s 1999 novel, The Blackwater Lightship, is set in 1990s Ireland and takes place, predominantly, in an old house perched on a crumbling, seaside cliff in County Wexford. Two lighthouses once stood within view of the house.
The story is primarily set in Ireland, where the rugged coastline and the eponymous Blackwater Lightship serve as poignant backdrops to the unfolding drama. The novel revolves around the lives of three women – Helen, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora – as they navigate their intertwined relationships and confront their shared family ...
Plot summary. The story is set in Dublin and County Wexford [2] and described from the viewpoint of Helen, a successful school principal living with her husband and two children in Ireland. She learns one day, that her brother Declan, who is homosexual, has been ill with AIDS for years, and refused to tell her until then.
- Colm Tóibín
- 1999
Aug 13, 1999 · Set in the early 1990's, The Blackwater Lightship takes place over a few days at a remote seaside home outside Wexford, Ireland. Helen Breen, her estranged mother, Lily, and her grandmother set aside their hurts and complications to welcome Helen's beloved brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS.
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Book Summary. 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.
Aug 22, 2000 · amazon. A dynamic, many-tendriled drama (on the Booker short list last year) by Irish writer Tóibín ( The Story of the Night, 1997, etc.) shapes a complex view of intergenerational conflict at once modern and timeless, as a family assemble on the coast of Ireland to tend to one of their own, a young man losing ground in his struggle with AIDS.
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.
