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1	Brooklyn more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist From the award-winning author of "The Master" comes a moving historical novel set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, concerning a young woman torn between her family and her past in Ireland and the American who wins her heart. see all copies from $13.99! new only from $14.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Master more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist Colm Tóibín's novel follows the life of Henry James during the last five years of the 19th century. Tóibín tells the story of the great novelist obliquely by concentrating on events, both big and small, that had a large impact, such as the devastating failure of his play GUY DOMVILLE, his guilt over the suicide of a woman who loved him (and whom ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Heather blazing more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist The sea is eating into the land and the hill with the watchtower has disappeared. A house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late 20th century. Eamon is a judge in the Irish High court, a man obsessed by the law, now troubled by his past. The author also wrote "The South". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Story of the Night more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist In Colm Toibin's novel--both a thriller and a love story--set in Argentina during the time of the generals, Richard Garay, a gay man, lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from the world--a repression that parallels the government's refusal to acknowledge the political atrocities occurring during its regime. Stifled by a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Mothers and Sons: Stories more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist Colm Toibin's new and challenging collection of stories paint rich and textured portraits of individuals at different pivotal moments in their lives. In each case, Toibin shows how their relationship with either a mother or a son, or their relationship to their own role as mother or son, reveals something unique and important about them. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic & Algebra in Elementary School more books like this by Thomas P Carpenter, Colm Toibin, Megan Loef Franke add to wishlist In this book the authors reveal how children's developing knowledge of the powerful unifying ideas of mathematics can deepen their understanding of arithmetic see all copies from $31.53! new only from $31.53! \| SVS
7	The South more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist In 1950, determined to escape her family and become a painter, Katherine leaves Ireland for Barcelona. There she lives with an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War until her past catches up with her. The South is both powerful and lyrical, a novel of art and exile and the irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom. "A highly impressive ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Samuel Beckett, Volume 01: Novels more books like this by Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster (Editor), Colm Toibin (Introduction by) add to wishlist In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Beckett's birth, these volumes bring together nearly every word the poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright and critic ever published. see all copies from $9.23! new only from $9.23! \| SVS
9	Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explanations of Gay Lives and Literature more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist This study of literature and artwork by gay and lesbian artists including Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, and Pedro Almodovar, illuminates how their homosexuality informed their work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist A travelogue of Colm Toibin's trips to Poland, Seville, Bavaria, Rome and the Balkans, among other places; and a chronicle of Toibin's own religious experience and the influence it has on his life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $61.11! \| first editions
11 view cover	Irish Fiction, the Penguin Book of more books like this by Various, Colm Toibin (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology represents Irish fiction from its beginnings in the work of Swift to its most recent incarnations in writers such as Emma Donoghue, and includes full texts of several well-known masterpieces such as THE DEAD by Joyce and CASTLE RACKRENT by Maria Edgeworth. see all copies from $3.31! new only from $6.81! \| first editions
12 view cover	Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist This study of literature and artwork by gay and lesbian artists including Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Doty, and Pedro Almodovar, illuminates how their homosexuality informed their work. see all copies from $6.87! new only from $8.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Great Irish Speeches more books like this by Richard Aldous, Colm Toibin (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Great Irish Speeches" contains 50 of the most stirring and memorable speeches in Irish history. From the political oratories of Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera to emotive addresses by the nation's celebrated poets, writers and musicians, all of the included speeches have had a remarkable impact on the course of Irish ... see all copies from $6.45! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The New York Stories of Henry James more books like this by Henry James, Colm Toibin (Editor) add to wishlist Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Toibin, the author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel "The Master," a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first ... see all copies from $6.75! new only from $10.75! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Irish Famine more books like this by Colm Toibin, Diarmaid Ferriter add to wishlist The Irish Famine of the 1840s was a preventable tragedy, but who is to blame? This exploration opens a door to understanding all sides to this tragedy with an absorbing history provided by novelist Toibin that is supported by a collection of key documents selected by historian Ferriter. see all copies from $7.79! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar more books like this by Rosemary Stewart, Colm Toibin add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.64! new only from $17.44!
17 view cover	The Use of Reason by Colm Toibin add to wishlist In June, 2006, Picador launch "Picador Shots", a new series of pocket-sized books priced at GBP1. The "Shots" aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately desposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine. Colm Toibin's "The Use of ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Walls of Aran more books like this by Sean Scully, Colm Toibin (Introduction by) add to wishlist Sean Scully is one of today's best-loved abstract painters. His familiar signature style of lines or bands of colour, alluding to architectural elements such as portals, windows and walls, is one of the most instantly recognizable in contemporary painting. This book brings together for the first time his photographs of the dry stone walls found on ... see all copies from $21.42! new only from $28.61! \| SVS
19	New Writing from Ireland more books like this by Colm Toibin (Editor) add to wishlist For this eclectic and expansive collection, Toibin has assembled a rousing throng of voices, including John McGahern, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Edna O'Brien, Frank McGuiness, Tom Paulin, Roddy Doyle, and Dermont Bolger, representing a wide variety of writing from poetry to fiction to screenplays. Photos and illustrations throughout. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.37! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Synge: A Celebration more books like this by Colm Toibin (Editor) add to wishlist A celebration of and homage to J. M. Synge: the man and his legacy. see all copies from $16.66! new only from $23.84! \| first editions
21 view cover	Ireland: On the Edge of Europe more books like this by Agnes Pataux (Photographer), Colm Toibin (Introduction by) add to wishlist Agnes Pataux has travelled extensively throughout Ireland, photographing its ancient, majestic, nature-dominated landscapes. Her photographs - intense and solitary - speak to us of the primordial forces of nature, forces that have shaped both the extraordinary natural environs and the psyche of an enduring people, the Irish. Pataux is bound to ... see all copies from $14.89! new only from $17.39! \| first editions
22 view cover	Lady Gregory's Toothbrush more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist Yeats's friend Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) is the subject of this biography. Yeats and Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theater in Dublin and she is said to have written much of Yeats's celebrated play CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN, which rallied the Irish Catholic Nationalist cause. see all copies from $8.32! new only from $16.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Soho Square Six more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist This work is dedicated to contemporary Irish writing, and consists of a mixture of poetry, prose and photography. The contributors include Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, John McGahern, Edna O'Brien, John Banville, Frank McGuiness, Tom Paulin and Roddy Doyle. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $29.71! \| first editions
24	Sign of the Cross more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist This is a study of European Catholics, evoking a world of unshakeable dogma and troubled devotion. It is an unusual tour of a disturbing Europe, at odds with much of modernity. Among the places visited by Toibin are Poland, Croatia, Spain, Slovakia and Glasgow - for a Celtic match. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $18.04! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Irish Famine: A Documentary more books like this by Colm Toibin, Diarmaid Ferriter add to wishlist This unique volume, comprising Colm Toibin's acclaimed short text and a linked collection of key documents put together by one of Ireland's leading younger historians, offers a many-sided view of one's of history's most poignant and far-reaching catastrophes. This book will allow the reader to understand the complex way in which the fragmentary ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $9.59! \| first editions

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