Under a crumbling roof in 1990s Ireland, Helen and five other friends and loved ones wait impatiently as her brother, Declan, dies of AIDS. "The Blackwater Lightship" is a novel about morals and manners and the clashes of culture and personality. Yet most of all, it's a novel about stories and their incomparable capacity to heal the deepest wounds.
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Under a crumbling roof in 1990s Ireland, Helen and five other friends and loved ones wait impatiently as her brother, Declan, dies of AIDS. "The Blackwater Lightship" is a novel about morals and manners and the clashes of culture and personality. Yet most of all, it's a novel about stories and their incomparable capacity to heal the deepest wounds.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Multi Award Winning Author Colm Toibin, in person. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. A Fine copy which is really tight and has never been read; there is a sign of extremely light, very, very minimal remnants of the ink from the book's printing process lightly visible on the foredge. The dust jacket is Fine. American First Edition-First Printing with a full number line beginning with a 1. Signed, signature only, on the Title page, by Multi Award Winning Author Colm Toibin, in person, during an Author event in New York City on February 23, 2015. A photo of Colm during the event will be included. "The Blackwater Lightship" is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. This novel was made into a film, which aired on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. Angela Lansbury received an Emmy nomination for it in 2004. "The Blackwater Lightship" was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1999, and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2001. Rest assured, this collectible signed copy is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully package with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.