Nora Webster : a novel / Colm Toibin.

By:

Tóibín, Colm, 1955- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London: Viking 2014Edition: First Scribner trade paperback editionDescription: 373 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 21 cmContent type:

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ISBN:

9781439170939 (trade paperback)
1439170932
9780670918157 (Trade : pbk)
9780670918140 (hbk.) :

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction.

DDC classification:

823.92 TOI

LOC classification:

PR6070.O455 N67 2015b

Summary: Widowed in her forties, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace,. engagement, a haven-- herself.

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Title notes ( 2 )

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Long Loan	TUS: Midlands, Main Library Novels/Biographies	823.92 TOI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		216548

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Widowed in her forties, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace,. engagement, a haven-- herself.