The Blackwater lightship

Colm Tóibín

earliest edition we have, 1999 McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2001 paperback 280 pages

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From back cover: A... story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. It is the early 1990s, and Helen..., her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora, have come together in a crumbling old house along Ireland's coastal southeast to tend to Helen's adored brother Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With two of Declan's friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their...

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The Blackwater lightship paperback · 2001 · McClelland & Stewart Ltd. · 280 pages · 9780771085574
The blackwater lightship edition · 2001 · Scribner Paperback Fiction · 273 pages
The blackwater lightship edition · 2000 · Scribner · 273 pages
The Blackwater lightship edition · 1999 · Picador · 273 pages

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