One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations." - USA Today, "Toibin's prose is as elegant in its simplicity as it is complex in the emotions it evokes." -The New York Times Magazine, Praise for Brooklyn "Written with mesmerizing power and skill." -Richard Eder, Boston Globe "Colm Tóibín.
His generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." -Los Angeles Times, " triumph. his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." - Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times, "Toibin's prose is as elegant in its simplicity as it is complex in the emotions it evokes."-The New York Times Magazine, "Colm Toibin leads a generation of Irish novelists. Toibin writes about women more convincingly, I think, than any other living, male novelist." - Zoe Heller, author of The Believers, "Tibn. his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." - Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times, "A beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s. There is only the sound of a young woman slowly and deliberately stepping into herself, learning to make and stand behind her choices, finding herself." - Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine, "Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect." - The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.), "Reading Toibin is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect."-The Times Literary Supplement(U.K.), "Tóibín. A fine and touching novel, persuasive proof of Toibin's ever-increasing skills and range."-Booklist(starred review), 'Reading Tóibín is like watching an artist paint one small stroke after another until suddenly the finished picture emerges to shattering effect'.Brooklynstands comparison with Henry James'sThe Portrait of a Lady.'-The Times Literary Supplement(U.K.), "A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound… There are no antagonists in this novel, no psychodramas, no angst. One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations." - USA Today, "A compelling characterization of a woman caught between two worlds.
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