{"product_id":"empty-family","title":"Empty Family","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEmpty Family\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eColm Toibin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781439195963\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eScribner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e288\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, Colm Tóibín, returns with a stunning collection of stories--\"a book that's both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCritics praised \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e as a \"beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/i\u003e, Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--\"the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart\" ( \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, UK). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the breathtaking long story \"The Street,\" Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona--a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In \"Two Women,\" an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. \"Silence\" is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/i\u003e will further cement Tóibín's status as \"his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power\" ( \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e ).\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Empty Family | Colm Toibin | Paperback | 9781439195963 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1710562","offer_id":48753953964184,"sku":"1710562","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81V0tS-dFzL.jpg?v=1774070480","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/empty-family","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}