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The empty family : stories / Colm Tóibín.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tóibín, Colm, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Home.
- Home--Fiction.
- Sexual abuse--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2011.
- Summary:
- A collection of short fiction includes "The Street," in which Pakistani workers in Barcelona pursue a taboo affair; and "Two Women," in which a taciturn Irish set designer confronts repressed emotions while working in her homeland.
- Contents:
- Silence
- The empty family
- Two women
- One minus one
- The pearl fishers
- Barcelona, 1975
- The new Spain
- The colour of shadows
- The street.
- Notes:
- The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
- The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by the author.
- Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Fiction, Winner, 2012
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- Contains:
- Pearl fishers.
- New Spain.
- Colour of shadows.
- Street.
- ISBN:
- 9781439138328
- 143913832X
- OCLC:
- 548607406
- Publisher Number:
- 99940840778
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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