| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Colm Toibin, Terry Donnelly. |
| Summary |
"Silence" is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, widowed and abandoned by her lover, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party. In "Two Women," an eminent Irish set designer, aloof and prickly, takes a job in her homeland, and is forced to confront devastating emotions she has long repressed. "The New Spain" is the story of an intransigent woman who returns home after a decade in exile and shatters the fragile peace her family has forged in the post-Franco world. And in the breathtaking long story "The Street," Tóibín imagines a startling relationship between two Pakistani workers in Barcelona-a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. Tóibín's characters are often difficult and combative, compelled to disguise their vulnerability and longings. Yet he unmasks them, and in doing so offers us a set of extraordinarily moving stories that remind us of the fragility and individuality of human life. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Families -- Fiction.
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Home -- Fiction.
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Sexual abuse -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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Love stories.
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| Added Author |
Toibin, Colm.
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Donnelly, Terry.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Pearl fishers.
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New Spain.
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Colour of shadows.
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Street.
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| ISBN |
9781442337282 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1442337281 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12207102 |
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