The Blackwater Lightship

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 273, [7, blank]. Black cloth, lettered in silver to spine; sage green endpapers. Dustcover painting by Mary Lohan (priced at £15.00 to front flap).

Signed by Tóibín to title page.

Author's fourth novel. With jacket blurbs by Don DeLillo and Nick Hornby. Shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize and the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, which he went on to win with The Master in 2006. Set in the early 1990s in a crumbling old house by the sea, where Helen and three generations of her estranged Irish family gather at the bedside of her beloved brother, who is dying of AIDS. "[A] genuine work of art." –Chicago Tribune