Nora Webster (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781439138335)

From one of contemporary literature's bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved authors, the magnificent, instant New York Times bestselling novel set in Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young widow and mother of four, navigating grief and fear, struggling for hope.

Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín's superb seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, 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.

Nora Webster is a masterpiece in character study by a writer at the zenith of his career, "beautiful and daring" (The New York Times Book Review) and able to "sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations" (USA TODAY). In Nora Webster, Tóibín has created a character as iconic, engaging and memorable as Madame Bovary or Hedda Gabler.

Author: Colm Toibin
ISBN-10: 1439138338
ISBN-13: 9781439138335
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.20d
Award: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence - Finalist
Award: Costa Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2014 pg. 56
Publishers Weekly 07/07/2014
Booklist 08/01/2014 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2014 pg. 22
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2014
New York Times Book Review 10/05/2014 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 10/12/2014 pg. 22
New Yorker (The) 10/20/2014 pg. 98
People Weekly 11/03/2014 pg. 42
Shelf Awareness 10/21/2014
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 48
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/07/2014 pg. 27
People Weekly 12/22/2014 pg. 46
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2015 pg. 11
New York Review of Books 01/08/2015 pg. 34
BookPage 10/01/2014
Library Journal 05/01/2014