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In the following review, Scurr praises Tóibín's control of the narrative in The Blackwater Lightship.
Five years before the publication of his first novel, The South (1990), Colm ...
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In the following review, Bedford asserts that although the prose in The Blackwater Lightship can seem too sterile, the novel is overall “a fine, thoughtful, compassionate” work.
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In the following review, Eagleton offers a positive assessment of The Blackwater Lightship.
‘You know, in my family,’ remarks a gay Irish architect in Colm Tóibín's ...
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Critical Review by Ruth Scurr
