Colm Tóibín, Costa Book Award (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 Colm Toibin's The Testament of Mary is a short, powerful novel about one of the most famous mothers in history. From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. As her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth, Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity, she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human. Praise for The Testament of Mary: 'This is a short book, but it is as dense as a diamond. It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta, but it is completely heretical.Toibin maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her' Edmund White, Irish Times 'Depicting the harrowing losses and evasions that can go on between mothers and sons.Toibin creates a reversed Pieta: he holds the mother in his arms' Independent 'A beautiful and daring work.it takes its power from the surprise of its language, its almost shocking characterization' Mary Gordon, New York Times Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels, including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Brooklyn, which won the Costa Novel Award, and two collections of stories, Mothers and Sons and The Empty Family. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Colm T¿ib¿/b> was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. His most recent novel is House of Names. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Colm T¿ib¿/b> was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. His most recent novel is House of Names. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.

Condition: New. It is Ireland in the 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and home for the first time.Arr.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st impression, unread, not price clipped, no owner's name or other inscription, light age toning to page ends ( otherwise book would be "as new"), first state D/j (ie no reference to the Costa Novel Award) has 1cm tear to rear at head next to spine but there are no stickers, creases or marks and the D/j is protected by a clear removable sleeve. This copy purchased new by me upon publication.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has some edgewear. Book essentially as new. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 275 p. Audience: General/trade. By the Irish PEN Award-, Costa Novel Award-, Lambda Literary Award-, Stonewall Book Award-, and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award-winning author of 'The Master' and 'The Testament of Mary'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. A sequence of nine short works by the award-winning author of The Master explores the intricate bonds between mothers and sons as reflected at pivotal junctures that shift the way each sees and understands the other, from a famous singer s performance for a.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Colm T¿ib¿/b> was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. His most recent novel is House of Names. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 272 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First UK edition. New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the Signed Edition page (signature only). 1st UK edition, 1st printing, number line consists of "001". New, unread copy with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. "Signed Copy" sticker. By the Encore Award-, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Lambda Literary Award, Stonewall Book Award, Hawthornden Prize-, International Dublin Literary Award-, Costa Novel Award-, AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award-, Irish PEN Award-, The Kenyon Review Award-, Premio Malaparte-, Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award-, David Cohen Prize-, and Folio Prize-winning author of "Long Island" and "The Master". Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First American edition. New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the second free endpaper (signature only). 1st AMERICAN edition, 1st printing, complete number line. New, unread copy with dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. "Barnes & Noble Exclusive Signed Edition" sticker and "Oprah's Book CLub" medallion. The sequel to "Brooklyn" by the Encore Award-, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Lambda Literary Award, Stonewall Book Award, Hawthornden Prize-, International Dublin Literary Award-, Costa Novel Award-, AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award-, Irish PEN Award-, The Kenyon Review Award-, Premio Malaparte-, Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award-, David Cohen Prize-, and Folio Prize-winning author of "The Magician" and "The Master". Signed American editions are rare. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Oscar Wilde, Penguin Books Ltd. A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction by Colm T ibinAt the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London- a member of the social and intellectual elite, he was widely feted for his most recent stage success, An Ideal Husband. But by May of the same year, Wilde was in prison, bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins. 'De Profundis' is the astonishing letter he wrote to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, from prison; Colm T ibin describes it as Wilde's 'greatest piece of prose-writing'. Also included in this volume is 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', as well as other letters revealing to the wider world what prison really did to its inmates.Oscar Wilde (Author) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.Colm T ibin (External Editor) Colm T ibin was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster and, most recently, House of Names. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin. Paperback.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original purple paper-covered boards with bronze titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding firm with a tiny bump to the foor of the spine, the boards bright and fresh. There are a few light spots to the closed text-block edge, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that has an "as heard on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime" label on the front panel and is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£17.99 net to the lower front flap). Signed and dated "5 May 2009" by Colm Toibin in blue ink on the title page. The author's sixth novel, winner of the Costa Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009, and shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award. The acclaimed 2015 John Crowley directed film adaptation starring Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson and Emory Cohen featured a script written by Nick Hornby. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.