{"product_id":"the-news-from-dublin-colm-toibin-9781476785158","title":"The News from Dublin: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Colm Tóibín, \"one of the world's best living literary writers,\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), a brilliant new collection of nine short stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--many never before published.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColm Tóibín is a master of the short story, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. Described as \"his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), he brings to these stories an astonishing clarity and compassion. In \"The Journey to Galway,\" a mother learns of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in WWII, and must travel from Dublin to share the news with his wife and their three now fatherless children. In \"Sleep,\" published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, two lovers part as one of them cannot acknowledge or face his grief and fear after the death of his brother. And in the title story, death, again, is a central character as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin from Enniscorthy to petition the health minister for access to a new drug being tested for tuberculosis. Maurice's younger brother is dying of TB, and this is the only hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in Spain, Ireland, and America, these gorgeous stories explore longing, estrangement from family, grief, the pull of the past, and complex, transcendent love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This collection includes: \u003cbr\u003e - \"The Journey to Galway\" (originally published in Faber Anthology)\u003cbr\u003e - \"A Free Man\" (new)\u003cbr\u003e - \"Sleep\" (originally published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e - \"The News from Dublin\" (originally published in Faber Anthology)\u003cbr\u003e - \"A Sum of Money\" (new)\u003cbr\u003e - \"Barton Springs\" (originally published in Marlene Dumas catalogue)\u003cbr\u003e - \"Summer of '38\" (originally published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e - \"Five Bridges\" (originally published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e - \"The Catalan Girls\" (new)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colm Toibin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1476785155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476785158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.72d","brand":"Colm Toibin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002017095935,"sku":"9781476785158","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-news-from-dublin-colm-toibin-9781476785158","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}