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Three generations of women arrive at an uneasy peace after years of strife, in Colm Tóibín’s resonant and complex family drama."This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in its emotion and spare in its construction ...Toibin has crafted an unmissable read" - Sunday HeraldSet in modern-day Ireland, The Blackwater Lightship tells the tale of Dora Devereaux, her daughter Lily and granddaughter Helen. Declan, Helen’s adored brother, is dying. Brought together in the grandmother’s crumbling old house with two of Declan’s friends, the characters are forced to listen to each other’s stories - funny, shocking and sad – as they come to an acceptance of each other across generational boundaries."Toibin is a sparing, unsentimental writer; he has an innate sense of the formal feeling that follows great pain. His portrait of three generations struggling to accept (and care for) one another is deftly offset by the medical and social formalities of dying from AIDS, and the novel's achievement lies in its depiction of the everyday enterprise of loss." - The New YorkerColm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. He is the

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Author

Colm Toibin; Stephanie Roth

Publisher

Scribner Book Company

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743203319

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Sagas

Rating

4.2 / 5 (501 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14