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	Amazon.co.uk: The Blackwater Lightship: Books: Colm Toibin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In The Blackwater Lightship Toibin strips his style down to spare sentences, and what is said is bleaker: "It was clear to her now that it did not matter whether there were people or not--the world would go on.
		The Blackwater Lightship is a book about the frailty of human experiences, in the face of indifferent nature: "soon they would only be a memory, and that too would fade with time." Toibin deals with the tricky balance between hopefulness and hopelessness with elegant economy, and very few stumbles.
		The obvious symbolism of the lightship, the wave-washed strand, and the eroding headland on which the grandmother's cottage perches adds weight and universality to the crises facing the participants in this intense and poignant domestic drama.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Blackwater-Lightship-Colm-Toibin/dp/0330389866 (2476 words)

	village voice > books > Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship by Jonathan Taylor
		The family scenes at the beginning of The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Tóibín's fourth novel, are so leisurely that they inspire a growing sense of mystery as to what the book is going to be about.
		There, Helen confronts the sources of her estrangement from her mother, and begins the journey to reconciliation, with a bit of insight—accepted after some resistance—from Declan's alternative family of gay friends, who have been caring for him in his sickness.
		Blackwater's leaden backstory sometimes gives way to writing of a comparable pitch, centering on spare dialogue that bristles with tension and passive-aggressive barbs.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0035,taylor,17717,10.html (684 words)

	Colm Toibin : The Blackwater Lightship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For Lily, broken hopes and dreams are bound up with the Blackwater Lightship, one of two lighthouses that once stood in the Irish Sea near Ballyconnigar.
		Tuskar was a man and the Blackwater Lightship was a woman and they were both sending signals to each other and to other lighthouses, like mating calls.
		Whether it has the power to reconstruct his family is another matter, but in any case, The Blackwater Lightship remains a gripping narrative, deftly delivered by a master storyteller.
	books.mysic.ca /0743203313++The+Blackwater+Lightship (412 words)

	Amazon.com: The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel: Books: Colm Toibin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the opening pages of The Blackwater Lightship, a stranger drives up to Helen O'Doherty's Dublin house to tell her that her brother Declan is in the hospital and needs to see her.
		For Lily, broken hopes and dreams are bound up with the Blackwater Lightship, one of two lighthouses that once stood in the Irish Sea near Ballyconnigar.
		Tuskar was a man and the Blackwater Lightship was a woman and they were both sending signals to each other and to other lighthouses, like mating calls.
	www.amazon.com /Blackwater-Lightship-Novel-Colm-Toibin/dp/0743203313 (2420 words)

	Blackwater Lightship: A Novel by Toibin Colm Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Set in Ireland in the 1990s, the The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family.
		In The Blackwater Lightship Toibin strips his style down to spare sentences, and what is said is bleaker: "It was clear to her now that it did not matter whether there were people or not--the world would go on.
		The Blackwater Lightship is a book about the frailty of human experiences, in the face of indifferent nature: "soon they would only be a memory, and that too would fade with time." Toibin deals with the tricky balance between hopefulness and hopelessness with elegant economy, and very few stumbles.
	www.shvoong.com /books/7322-blackwater-lightship-novel (406 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hallmark sends the best (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lightship's depiction of a dysfunctional, multigenerationalfamily pulling together in a time of crisis, and its lessons about letting go of the past and accepting that we all make mistakes, are universal.
		ET/PT Based on a book by Colm Toibin, Lightship is the kind of movie we used to expect from Hallmark, before it began overindulging in holiday syrup.
		Lightship might have been stronger had it spent more time in the present and less on flashbacks to Helen's childhood — a division that makes the inevitable reconciliation seem a little simplistic and rushed.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/reviews/2004-02-03-blackwater-lightship_x.htm (547 words)

	A Little Nearer Redemption
		Testing this thesis is the business of Toibin's fourth novel, ''The Blackwater Lightship,'' which was a finalist for last year's Booker Prize.
		The most engaging moments in ''The Blackwater Lightship'' follow the interplay between gruff, ornery Dora and the three men, who succeed in clasping hands across a gulf of age and sensibility.
		While we needy Americans by now take for granted the therapeutic bent of contemporary life, ''The Blackwater Lightship'' resurrects an innocence, and a corresponding excitement, about the liberating promise of bringing secrets to light, whether they're about your sexuality or your old, buried anger at Mom.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/09/10/reviews/000910.10coop.html (1147 words)

	The Blackwater Lightship News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Blackwater Lightship News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Academy Award-nominated actress Angela Lansbury will be in Dublin to introduce two of her films and take part in a public interview at the Irish Film Institute on Sunday 9 July.
		One million dollars was added to the coffers of the Actors' Fund of America on Saturday thanks to a spiffy group of actors, socialites, networkers, Intl.
	www.topix.net /movies/the-blackwater-lightship (87 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - Awards for Ireland's Blackwater Lightship
		Irish television film 'The Blackwater Lightship' has won two awards at the recent Monte Carlo Television Festival.
		Amerian television film veteran John Erman ('Victoria and Albert' 'Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke') directed the film which is based on the novel by Colm Toibín.
		'The Blackwater Lightship' was produced by Irish television entertainment company World 2000 Entertainment and stars Angela Lansbury, Dianne Wiest and Gina McKee.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/0708/theblackwaterlightship.html (161 words)

	Book: Blackwater Lightship, The
		In spare, luminous prose, Toibin explores the nature of love and the complex emotion inside an unhappy family.
		The Blackwater Lightship is a novel about morals and manners, and the clashes of culture and personality.
		But most of all, it is a novel about stories, and their incomparable capacity to heal the deepest wounds.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/OSL/LGBT/library/details/4842.html (171 words)

	Colm Toibin Tóibín (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		All six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, are forced to listen to each other and come to terms with each other.
		The Blackwater Lightship is a novel about morals and manners, about culture clashes and clashes of personalities, but it is also a novel full of stories, as the characters give an account of themselves, and the others listen, awe-struck or deeply amused at things they have never heard before.
		Written in a spare, powerful prose, The Blackwater Lightship is an astonishingly acute and moving work which offers sharp and memorable insights into the nature of love and family, and dramatises the lives of characters who appear remarkably exact and real.
	www.colmtoibin.com /books/fiction/blackwater/content/CTBWSynopsis.htm (189 words)

	Johns Hopkins AIDS Service: Literary Corner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Irish novelist Colm Toibin's new work, The Blackwater Lightship, is a painful and wrenching, but ultimately rewarding, return to the past for those close to the AIDS epidemic.
		Moreover, while those who practice in the industrial world can now effectively manage the vast majority of their patients with extraordinary new drugs, the suffering in The Blackwater Lightship is all too real for most people with HIV around the world.
		Consumers are cautioned that this site is not intended to provide medical advice about any specific medical condition they may have or treatment they may need and they are encouraged to call or see their physician or other health care provider promptly with any health related questions they may have.
	www.hopkins-aids.edu /lit_corner/lit_corner.html (2555 words)

	The Columnists.com has columns about entertainment, television, music, and screen classics
		"The Blackwater Lightship," based on the 1999 novel by Colm Toibin, is about the changes the illness of Declan (Keith McErlean) brings in the twisted psychological links between his relatives.
		In a sense, this dying young man becomes the "lightship" of the title, showing the rest of them the way through the hazardous passage between the rocks of their troubled lives.
		Filmed on location in Ireland, "The Blackwater Lightship" has the classy feature film look that the Hallmark films almost always have, but the fact that it's about human relationships and not serial killers is a definite plus.
	www.thecolumnists.com /miller/miller333.html (719 words)

	Powell's Books - The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
		With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.
		Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death.
		The Blackwater Lightship is set in the early 1990s in an old house in Ireland.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0743203313&PID=24351&PID=24351 (277 words)

	The Blackwater Lightship Book at Shop Ireland
		At the same time, he explores Lily's competing needs and the limitations imposed on her by her husband's early death and her need to support her family both financially and physically.
		The obvious symbolism of the lightship, the wave-washed strand, and the eroding headland on which the grandmother's cottage perches adds weight and universality to the crises facing the participants in this intense and poignant domestic drama.
		When I got to reading The Blackwater Lightship I was hugely disappointed initially.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/detail/0330389866/The-Blackwater-Lightship (1564 words)

	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
		"The Blackwater Lightship is a succintly written novel that focuses on the reaction of a range of personalities to the shock of a loved one with AIDS.
		Foremostly, that of the protagonist Helen, a caring mother yet aloof daughter who prides herself on her familial detachment, but is forced to come to terms with her family issues in order to deal with the suffering and shock of her brother Declan's illness.
		It's constant glow in reply to the strong Tuscar Lighthouse is a symbol of female love, consistent, but has recently been removed, as shown by the three female characters.
	www.impacdublinaward.ie /2001/blackwater.htm (1817 words)

	IMDb user comments for The Blackwater Lightship (2004) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Blackwater Lightship is a rare television treat.
		Declan (Keith McErlean) is in his final stages of AIDS and decides to spend the last of his days at his grandmother Dora's (Angela Lansbury) house.
		With an Irish seaside setting (the Blackwater Lightship) and superb character transformations...this is a film I recommend unhesitatingly.
	indie.imdb.com /title/tt0377524/usercomments (1078 words)

	CNN.com - From clever detective to tough granny - Feb. 4, 2004
		Despite their proximity in age, Granny proves a gutsy leap for the 78-year-old Lansbury, almost unrecognizable in the gray, thatchlike wig and dowdy garb the role demanded.
		Besides, "The Blackwater Lightship" (which CBS airs Wednesday at 9 p.m.
		Lansbury as the grandmother in "The Blackwater Lightship."
	cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/04/apontv.angela.lansbury.ap (900 words)

	The Blackwater Lightship Summary
		The Blackwater Lightship is a 1999 novel written by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
		The story is described from the viewpoint of Helen, a successful school princ...
		In the following review, Bedford asserts that although the prose in The Blackwater Lightship can seem too sterile, the novel is overall “a fine, thoughtful, compassionate” work.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Blackwater_Lightship (129 words)

	Blackwater Lightship
		There is some lyrical edge-of-the-world writing (as in the parts of The Heather Blazing set in Blackwater) and considerable humor in the affectionate relationships that develop between the flinty grandmother and the gay visitors.
		The long-festering mother-daughter hurt and anger are plausibly drawn (though sometimes schematically asserted rather than fully dramatized).
		He is clearly a very talented writer, and Blackwater Lightship is certainly not without interest and many compelling scenes.
	members.fortunecity.com /culturedose/review_10003086.html (984 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		But it's "The Blackwater Lightship," and that's the title of the piece, of course.
		This is a lightship that was off the coast, very close to this old house where granny lives.
		She's won four Tonys, three-time Oscar nominee, stars in "The Blackwater Lightship" airing Wednesday night, a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation on CBS that also will be available on DVD at the end of March at all Hallmark Gold Crown stores.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0402/02/lkl.00.html (6047 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS.
		Moved to such loyalty and love the friends showed Declan, the stiff family succumbed to what they said and was inspired to reconcile its own strife.
		The fact that Declan chose not to trouble his mother, though he loved her, showed that the family was not as close to him as his friends were to him.
	www.bublos.net /isbn/0743203313.html (2830 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Blackwater Lightship, The
		These six, from different generations and with different beliefs, are forced to listen to each other and come to terms with each other.
		'We shall be reading and living with The Blackwater Lightship in twenty years.' Independent on Sunday 'I know of no novelist under fifty who is Toibin's equal.
		And in this, his fourth book, his prose rises to heights of an extraordinary beauty.' Paul Binding, Independent on Sunday 'It is in his emotional choreography that Toibin shows himself to be an exceptional writer.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0330389866 (317 words)

	BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP by COLM TOIBIN from Pickabook Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP by COLM TOIBIN from Pickabook Books
		Following his successful TV series and book about Venice, the author now takes time to explore the whole of Italy.
		The six of them, from different generations and beliefs, are forced to come to terms with each other.
	www.pickabook.co.uk /cgi/bkdetail.php?isbn=0330389866 (205 words)

	Amazon.com: The Blackwater Lightship : A Novel: Books: Colm Toibin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		One of the young Turks of Irish fiction (The Heather Blazing; The Story of the Night) again examines themes of loss and death in a novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
		The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel by Colm Toibin
		Beautifully written, emotionally effecting novel about an estranged family brought together by a young man dying of AIDS - a brother, son and grandson of three strong willed women.
	www.amazon.com /Blackwater-Lightship-Novel-Colm-Toibin/dp/0684873893 (2355 words)

	Anglican Media Sydney - The Blackwater Lightship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		We see Helen’s mother; lost, grieving and unable to connect emotionally with her children after her husband’s death.
		Written in a sparse, detached style, The Blackwater Lightship explores the ties that bind, and the unspoken needs and expectations we have of family.
		The Blackwater Lightship explores the inner life of a character who has become hardened.
	old.anglicanmedia.com.au /index.php/article/articleprint/336/-1/50 (668 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Blackwater Lightship: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The novel "The Blackwater lightship" by Colm Tóibín (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was chosen as the second book to read (my first - as I have just joined the club).
		With "The Blackwater Lightship" Colm Tóibín has written a beautiful book.
		Also your bottom is called a "bum", not a homelss person.) But for the rest of it, I should have left it in the bookstore.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743203313 (1933 words)

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