Colm Toibin: Nora Webster | The King's English Bookshop | Books | Salt Lake City Weekly

More

This is a past event.

Colm Toibin: Nora Webster

When: Mon., June 8, 7 p.m. 2015
Phone: 801-484-9100
Price: Free
www.kingsenglish.com/event/colm-toibin-nora-webster
Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself.

Map

Nearby

History

© 2024 Salt Lake City Weekly

Website powered by Foundation