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Tóibín off to Penguin
09.10.08 Benedicte Page
Penguin has acquired Man Booker-shortlisted novelist Colm Tóibín, previously published by Picador. Viking editorial director Mary Mount bought two new novels and a collection of short stories through Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge and White.
The first book, titled Brooklyn, tells the story of a young Irish woman who arrives in the US in the 1950s. The publisher calls it “a novel of great love and loss”, with a “remarkable” heroine. Publisher Venetia Butterfield said she was “delighted to welcome a writer of Tóibín’s prowess and stature to the Viking list”.
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