Toibin, Colm, 1955-

The Blackwater lightship : a novel / Colm Toibin - Toronto : McClelland & Stewart Inc. , 2000, c1999 - 273 p. ; 21 cm.

"The Blackwater Lightship" is set in the early 1990s in an old house in Ireland. Helen and her family have gathered there to care for her brother, who is dying of AIDS. A portrayal of a family at war with itself, whose storytelling and truth revealing may be able to heal all their wounds.


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Gay men---Family relationships----Fiction
AIDS (Disease)----Fiction
Death----Psychological aspects----Fiction
Mothers and daughters----Fiction
Grandmothers----Fiction


Ireland----Fiction

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