Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Colm Toibin on His Sequel to 'Brooklyn'
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín is a celebrated novel about a young Irish immigrant navigating homesickness, romantic choices, and a dual identity in 1950s New York and her native village.
Discussed“Long Island is the sequel to Brooklyn published in 2009”
Where to get it
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a classic 1813 comedy of manners that follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy as they navigate issues of class, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the British landed gentry.
Recommended“Pride and Prejudice like everybody else right”
Where to get it
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“I think there's a section of uls it's the night Town section James Joyce's book”
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The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl by Henry James is a complex, late-period psychological novel that explores betrayal, marriage, and moral ambiguity among a small circle of wealthy Americans in Europe.
Recommended“Golden Bowl by Henry James”
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The Age of Innocence
Discussed“so I was sort of working with that and working as well with you know ideas in Edith Warton say Age of Innocence in which an outside woman seems more glamorous”
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The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a classic 1881 novel following the spirited young American heiress Isabel Archer as she navigates European society, independence, and a disastrous marriage.
Recommended“but there are books that haven't Chang for me such as po to Lady which I would have again read when I was 18 and I would have read regularly since”
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Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is a classic nineteenth-century novel that explores morality, social standing, and domestic life within an English country estate.
Recommended“but I also love Mansfield Park”
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The Trial
The Trial by Franz Kafka is a classic twentieth-century existential novel about a man arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible, ambiguous authority for an unspecified crime.
Recommended“and I certainly love the trial”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he teaches literature among other things at Columbia University and he's here to talk about his new book Long Island”
“in Nora Webster which is about really set it's the most Auto autobiographical novel of mine”
“well it's in the novel The Blackwater light ship where the guy says I haven't told my parents that I'm gay”
“that was Sarah Lyle in conversation with the novelist colem toy Bean about his new book Long Island”