"Nora Webster," by Colm Toíbín. Scribner, New York, 2014. 384 pages. $27.Colm Toíbín's newest novel, "Nora Webster," is set in the late 1960s and early '70s in County Wexford in southeast Ireland.The political and religious conflicts play out noisily to the north while 44-year-old Nora Webster, mother of four and just widowed, slowly, deliberately feels her way forward.We learn very little about Maurice, Nora's husband who dies of a heart condition. What we learn comes a sentence at [...]
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