The Resource Nora Webster : a novel, Colm Tóibín
Nora Webster : a novel, Colm Tóibín
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Resource Information
The item Nora Webster : a novel, Colm Tóibín represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 10 library branches.
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- Summary
- Nora Webster is widowed at 40, with four sons in her care and little money to support them. She's desperate to retain her independence and so grief-stricken that she barely registers how much her sons need her. But gradually she returns to singing, which she had abandoned years before, and finds herself. The multi-award-winning Toibin has a gift for portraiture. With a six-city tour. -- Library Journal
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 373 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439138335
- Label
- Nora Webster : a novel
- Title
- Nora Webster
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Colm Tóibín
- Subject
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- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMothers and sons
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- trueSinging
- trueSingle mothers
- trueSmall town life
- Wexford (Ireland) -- Fiction
- trueWexford, Ireland
- trueWidows
- Widows -- Fiction
- true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
- trueCatholic Church -- Ireland
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily and death
- trueGrief in women
- trueIreland
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Nora Webster is widowed at 40, with four sons in her care and little money to support them. She's desperate to retain her independence and so grief-stricken that she barely registers how much her sons need her. But gradually she returns to singing, which she had abandoned years before, and finds herself. The multi-award-winning Toibin has a gift for portraiture. With a six-city tour. -- Library Journal
- Summary
- Struggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, widow Nora struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive community of her childhood before finding her voice
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2014.
- Hawthornden Prize, 2015.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2014
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10358400
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1955-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tóibín, Colm
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6070.O455
- LC item number
- N67 2014
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Widows
- Mothers and sons
- Self-realization in women
- Wexford (Ireland)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Nora Webster : a novel, Colm Tóibín
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn873006253
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 373 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439138335
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014008519
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)873006253
- Label
- Nora Webster : a novel, Colm Tóibín
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn873006253
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 373 pages
- Isbn
- 9781439138335
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014008519
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)873006253
Subject
- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMothers and sons
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Self-realization in women -- Fiction
- trueSinging
- trueSingle mothers
- trueSmall town life
- Wexford (Ireland) -- Fiction
- trueWexford, Ireland
- trueWidows
- Widows -- Fiction
- true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
- trueCatholic Church -- Ireland
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily and death
- trueGrief in women
- trueIreland
Genre
Included in
- trueHawthornden Prize
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2014
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2014
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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