Colm Tóibin was born in Ireland in 1955, and lives in Dublin. He is the author of four novels, including the 1999 Booker nominated The Blackwater Lightship. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time.
Colm Tóibín writes beautifully in a spare style that allows for
plain description, high humour and effects that are carefully
toned. He is at once an honest, uncertain pilgrim with a press card
and a sense of devilment, and a son on an Oedipal trail.
*Irish Times*
A mixture of autobiography, travelogue and journalism which
tantalizes the reader with what it withholds as much as it
entertains and instructs with what it describes . . . The Sign of
the Cross, like all good writing, is a treat.
*Independent on Sunday*
This book describing Colm Tóibín’s journey is written with the
novelist’s familiar clarity and wisdom. It is as much a record of
the European Catholic psyche in different political climates as it
is an introspective pilgrimage to see what stuff Tóibín’s own faith
is made of.
*Daily Telegraph*
Colm Toibin writes beautifully in a spare style that allows for
plain description, high humour and effects that are carefully
toned. He is at once an honest, uncertain pilgrim with a press card
and a sense of devilment, and a son on an Oedipal trail. * Irish
Times *
A mixture of autobiography, travelogue and journalism which
tantalizes the reader with what it withholds as much as it
entertains and instructs with what it describes . . . The Sign
of the Cross, like all good writing, is a treat. * Independent
on Sunday *
This book describing Colm Toibin's journey is written with the
novelist's familiar clarity and wisdom. It is as much a record of
the European Catholic psyche in different political climates as it
is an introspective pilgrimage to see what stuff Toibin's own faith
is made of. * Daily Telegraph *
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