The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
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Aug 22, 2000 · 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.
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Aug 13, 1999 · 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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Sep 30, 2022 · Fri 30 Sep 2022 at 06:47. An Irish kitchen setting, a family forced to confront its divisions when faced with a terminal illness: Colm Tóibín’s Booker-nominated novel of 1990s life is here neatly...
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The Blackwater Lightship. A man (Keith McErlean) tells his mother (Dianne Wiest), his grandmother (Angela Lansbury) and his sister that he is in the final stages of AIDS.
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Feb 1, 2004 · A small yet thoroughly involving multigenerational story with a young gay man dying of AIDS at its core, not only is this film not ripped from the headlines, but for once, mom and grandma aren’t...
Testing this thesis is the business of Toibin's fourth novel, ''The Blackwater Lightship,'' which was a finalist for last year's Booker Prize. Set in Dublin and rural County Wexford, the novel...
The Blackwater Lightship is a 1999 novel written by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Tóibín conceived the book while traveling in Spain and, as he did not have access to a typewriter, bought a pen and notebook, which prompted his return to writing in longhand.
