The Blackwater Lightship
- List Price: $24.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish date: 12/01/2007
Description:
It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora have come together, after a decade of estrangement, to tend to Helen's beloved brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. Under the crumbling roof of Dora's old house in Ireland, Declan's two friends join the women as each waits for the end. All six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.
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In spare, luminous prose, Toibin explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside an unhappy family. The Blackwater Lightship is a novel about morals and manners, and the clashes of culture and personality. But most of all, it is a novel about stories, and their incomparable capacity to heal the deepest wounds.
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