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    <body><![CDATA[Colm Toibin is one of my favorite Irish authors writing today. Among his books that I've read to date (&quot;The South&quot;, &quot;The Heather Blazing&quot;, &quot;The Blackwater Lightship&quot;, &quot;Mothers and Sons&quot; and this one - I haven't read &quot;The Master&quot; yet), &quot;The Story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2690990">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The subject matter of the book is intense and important -- being gay in a repressive society, Argentinian politics and corruption, emotional isolation, AIDS -- and yet it had less impact than I expected.  The narrator is oddly emotionally distanced, which makes sense in the context of his childhood ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62610248">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Toibin's third novel was his first openly 'gay' novel and I wonder how much he felt compelled to tackle the subject of AIDS. It was published in 1996 so maybe there was a sense of obligation on his part. Reading it in 2006, I couldn't help sighing a little with a sense of deja vu when the topic rear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2768259">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent love story (unless you're homophobic). I enjoyed the psychological study of the main character and the Argentinian background. The novel was very sad in some sections.<br/><br/>The author seems to have a lot in common with Patrick Gale (family relationships and gay themes), but I enjoy C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38748085">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, <em>The Story of Night,</em> he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the personal journey of a man coming out--with intellectual deftness and literary agility. Written with grace and understatement <em>The Story of Night</em> is Tóibín's best work yet.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was excellent.  Well-written, lyrical, captivating.  I am excited to read more Toibin.  He's a candidate, I'd guess, for &quot;classic status.&quot;  Worth noting that this is a perfect example of &quot;you can take the boy of Ireland [ie set the plot in Argentina], but you can't take the moros...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40216669">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What an incredible book. This is my first time reading Toibin, but I don't think it'll be the last. This book was written at the end of the 90's, and is a story about a gay man in Buenos Aires during the 80's. Fascinating time in the history of not only Argentina, but gay men in general, really deal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56656015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third book of Toibin that I read. The first book of his that I read was “The Master”, it is very nicely written and because of it, I looked for another book written by him. Soon, I read “The Blackwater Lightship”, a story about relationship of three women, a grandma, a mother, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4575631">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book keeps the reader on edge, intentionally. Toibin is an impressive author with incredible ability to explore emotional, political, psychological, and sexual depths. <em>The Heather Blazing</em> was better though.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These characters will never leave me...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An intense, beautifully written novel set in Argentina during the Falkland War. The protagonist struggles to free himself from his closeted, limited life after his mother dies. He finds himself pulled into politics and corrupt business dealings even as he finally explores his sexuality and tries to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10347610">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My least favorite so far of his books. Still love his writing - some beautiful stuff about the death of Richard's parents - but I was completely disinterested in the politics and economics of Argentina. I started out liking the main character but disliked him as he matured so could never fully enjoy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25647437">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got about halfway through it and it just failed to grab me. The narrative structure is peculiar; one thread seems to be ufolding and then suddenly sort of dies out, a new one starts, and again dies out, and I dunno, I just stopped caring. Furtive gay sex, political turmoil, inner conflict, bla bla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25753944">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book - the underlying disconnect that Richard feels from his country, his family, himself and how it impacts him and his overwhelming desire to connect.  Well written and emotional without being overwrought.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because I had read &quot;The Master&quot; and also because of my interest in Argentina. The author mixes domestic drama with political and cultural history very well, but in the end, it was extremely downbeat.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An unassuming, yet absorbing novel.<br/>It is a story of how the larger politics and social changes of an era can trickle down and affect a life, even when the person living that life doesn't notice.]]></body>
    
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