Colm Toibin has 8 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 9 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know.
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Summary
Award-winning author Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of the world's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. "A father...is a necessary evil." Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways they surface in their work. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange premonition of what would happen to his son; to Yeats' father, an impoverished artist and brilliant letter-writer who could never finish a painting; to John Stanislaus Joyce, a singer, drinker, and storyteller, a man unwilling to provide for his large family, whom his son James memorialised in his writing, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know brilliantly combines biography and literary appreciation and is a revealing, personal new look at the lives of three major literary icons.
©2018 Colm Toibin (P)2018 Penguin Random House Canada
A Guest at the Feast
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The unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Colm Tóibín's touching memoir, A Guest at the Feast, beautifully read by the author himself. A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had a book on the go to the author's early adulthood, from a love of literature to the influences of place and family. Tóibín's captivating memoir is the story of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. It is a perfect gem of a book.
©2011 Colm Tóibín (P)2011 Penguin Books Ltd
The Blackwater Lightship
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Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen’s adored brother, Declan, is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen to and come to terms with one another.
©1999 Colm Toibin (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
Pale Sister
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Antigone stood defiant in the face of tyranny. Best-selling and award winning author Colm Tóibín wrote this new dramatisation of the Greek tragedy especially to be performed by Irish actor Lisa Dwan. Pale Sister gives voice to Antigone’s sister, Ismene, who recounts her sister’s defiance of the king as pressures mount on her to act to vindicate her sister, or even follow her example. Pale Sister tells Antigone’s story through Ismene: the quiet person in the corner, bearing witness to everything. Dwan’s skilled theatrical performance delivers words that give power to those without, and a message that resonates deeply in today’s world. With sound design by Sinead Diskin. The stage performance was produced by Audible and The Gate Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, 2019.
©2020 Colm Tóibín (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
Mothers and Sons
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Colm Tóibín's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time.
©2006 Colm Toibin (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
The Shortest Day
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In Ireland, a man of reason is drawn to a true mystery older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge in this enthralling story about ethereal secrets by New York Times best-selling author Colm Tóibín. During the winter solstice, on the shortest day and longest night of the year, the ancient burial chamber at Newgrange is empowered. Its mystifying source is a haunting tale told by locals. Professor O’Kelly believes an archaeologist’s job is to make known only what can be proved. He is undeterred by ghost stories, idle speculation, and caution. Much to the chagrin of the living souls in County Meath. As well as those entombed in the sacred darkness of Newgrange itself. They’re determined to protect the secret of the light, guarded for more than 5,000 years. And they know O’Kelly is coming for it.
©2020 Colm Tóibín (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Thalia Book Club: Colum McCann's 'Let the Great World Spin' and Colm Toibin's 'Brooklyn'
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The Irish writers and good friends discuss their newest novels (each of which is set in New York City and was chosen by Amazon as one of the Top 4 Books of 2009) with each other and the audience. Michael Cerveris performs excerpts from both authors. A book signing follows.
©2010 Symphony Space (P)2010 Symphony Space
Brooklyn
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Irland i 50'erne: Den unge pige Eilis bor sammen med sin mor og søster i en lille by, hvor der er meget langt til resten af verden. Faren er død, og pengene er små. Storesøsteren arbejder hårdt om dagen og spiller golf om aftenen. Her møder Eilis en praest, som er hjemme på besøg fra New York, og som lover at skaffe Eilis et job "over there". Efter en hård overfart til Amerika møder den lidt sky og tilbageholdende pige den nye verden, Brooklyn og New York. I Brooklyn flytter Eilis ind i et pensionat for irske piger og begynder at arbejde bag disken i en paen tøjforretning. Efterhånden finder hun sig til rette på jobbet, og hendes hjemve aftager i takt med at hun begiver sig laengere og laengere ud i den store by. Hun påbegynder et aftenskolekursus i bogføring og møder en ung mand af italiensk afstamning, Tony, med hvem hun lever det søde liv - danser, går i biografen, ser baseball-kampe og tager på stranden om sommeren. Da hun pludselig bliver kaldt til begravelse hjemme i Irland, er hun allerede langt mere forandret end hun selv ved af. Mødet med den gamle verden viser hende, hvor moden og selvstaendig hun er blevet af at stå på egne ben i storbyen langt vaek fra det enkle landsbyliv i Irland. Hun befinder sig i et dilemma: Skal hun slå sig ned i Irland hvor hun egentlig "hører til" og har sine rødder - og hvor en ung, velanset mand gerne vil giftes med hende - eller skal hun tage tilbage til Amerika og en fremtid sammen med Tony?
©2015 SAGA Egmont (P)2015 SAGA Egmont