Nora Webster (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) - Hardcover

T Ibin, Colm; Taoibain, Colm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410476278 ISBN 13: 9781410476272

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2015

Synopsis

Struggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, widow Nora Webster struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive community of her childhood before finding her voice.

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Review:

Toibin artfully shows us a Nora unmoored This quiet, wrenching novel conceals considerable human turbulence beneath its placid surface. So Toibin has learned well from Henry James In many ways, Nora Webster would bring an admiring smile to the Master s lips. --Daniel Dyer, Cleveland Plain Dealer"

"A deeply moving portrait of the flowering of a self-liberated woman, Nora Webster tells the story of all the invisible battles the heart faces every day."--Buzzy Jackson, Boston Globe

"Fascinating... Revelatory... More thoughtful than Emma Bovary and less self-destructive, in the end far and away a better parent than the doomed Anna Karenina for all the latter's dramatic posturing, Nora Webster is easily as memorable as either--and far more believable. To say more would spoil a masterful-- and unforgettable--novel."--Betsy Burton "NPR "

"Toibin artfully shows us a Nora unmoored...This quiet, wrenching novel conceals considerable human turbulence beneath its placid surface. So Toibin has learned well from Henry James...In many ways, Nora Webster would bring an admiring smile to the Master's lips."--Daniel Dyer, Cleveland Plain Dealer

-Fascinating... Revelatory... More thoughtful than Emma Bovary and less self-destructive, in the end far and away a better parent than the doomed Anna Karenina for all the latter's dramatic posturing, Nora Webster is easily as memorable as either--and far more believable. To say more would spoil a masterful-- and unforgettable--novel.---Betsy Burton -NPR -

-Toibin artfully shows us a Nora unmoored...This quiet, wrenching novel conceals considerable human turbulence beneath its placid surface. So Toibin has learned well from Henry James...In many ways, Nora Webster would bring an admiring smile to the Master's lips.---Daniel Dyer, Cleveland Plain Dealer

-A deeply moving portrait of the flowering of a self-liberated woman, Nora Webster tells the story of all the invisible battles the heart faces every day.---Buzzy Jackson, Boston Globe

From the Back Cover:

'Rare and tremendous . . . It does everything we ought to ask of a great novel: that it respond to the fullness of our lives, be as large as life itself' Tessa Hadley, Guardian

Nora Webster is recently widowed. Unmoored by her sudden loss and the needs of her children whom she now must raise alone, she faces a future that was never meant to be. But within Nora is a strength - a quiet resolve not to succumb to others' expectations and, through the discovery of music and the gift of friendship, she may just find a way to live again.

'Beautiful and heartbreaking. So richly detailed . . . you feel like you are living in Nora's world' Independent

'Read it if you relish fiction which is exquisitely written' The Times

'Quietly but overwhelmingly affecting' Spectator

'Brims with vitality, brought alive with outstanding vividness, enthralling' Sunday Times

'If you loved Brooklyn then you'll love this . . . as elegant and delicately wrought as gossamer' Metro

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1410476278
• ISBN 13: 9781410476272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 517