The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs

By George Moore

Long out of print, George Moore's classic novella returns just in time for the major motion picture starring Glenn Close as a woman disguised as a man in nineteenth-century Ireland. Set in a posh hotel in nineteenth-century Dublin, Albert Nobbs is the story of an unassuming waiter hiding a shocking secret. Forced one night to share his bed with an out-of-town laborer, Albert Nobbs' carefully constructed facade nearly implodes when the stranger disovers his true identity-that he's actually a woman. Forced by this revelation to look himself in the mirror, Albert sets off in a desperate pursuit of companionship and love, a search he's unwilling to abandon so long as he's able to preserve his fragile persona at the same time. A tale of longing and romance, Albert Nobbs is a moving and startlingly frank gender-bending tale about the risks of being true to oneself. With a foreword by Glenn Close .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143122525
• ISBN13: 9780143122524
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher