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   Jan 31, 2014 · A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan. Newfoundland, 1919.

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   No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is. – EDUARDO GALEANO

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   Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators—Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown—set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber to heal the wounds of the Great War. Dublin, 1845 and '46.

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   Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators--Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown--set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber...

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   Jun 20, 2013 · Colum McCann’s wide-ranging new novel, “TransAtlantic,” tells the stories of men and women who chose to leap across the ocean from Ireland to the New World or back again.

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   Is 'TransAtlantic' a novel about Alcock and Brown?

   • Although McCann makes an oft-told tale seem newly minted in ‘TransAtlantic’, ‘TransAtlantic’ is not a novel about Alcock and Brown. It does not strictly speaking, qualify as a historical novel.

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   When was 'TransAtlantic' by Colum McCann written?

   • Colum McCann’s new novel, “TransAtlantic,” was written in 1919, just after the end of the First World War: “It was that time of the century when the idea of a gentleman had almost become myth.” The war, McCann writes, had “concussed the world.”

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   What is transatlantic about?

   • They each learn that even the most unassuming moments of grace have a way of rippling through time, space, and memory. The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.

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   Did Alcock and brown make it across the ocean?

   • Even if a reader doesn’t know that Alcock and Brown successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean, these days it takes only 10 seconds to Google their names and find out. The novelist who takes on not just history but famous historical events has a hard row to hoe.

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   Jun 4, 2013 · Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it has fallen to him, the son of an Irish-American father and a Lebanese mother, to shepherd Northern Ireland's notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion.