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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.
Jun 27, 2013 · In “TransAtlantic,” Colum McCann uses a historic nonstop flight as a narrative anchor to take a kaleidoscopic look at more than 150 years of American and Irish history.
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Jun 4, 2013 · Book Summary. 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. In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act ...
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In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called “an emotional tour de force.” Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel ...
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Jun 15, 2017 · Transatlantic, a New York Times bestseller, seems to be an impossible feat as it endeavors to encompass generations of stories, succeeding in about 300 pages. The award-winning author Colum McCann shocks his audience once again with a novel that breaks the distance of time and of oceans, weaving together a fiction and nonfiction tale that ...
By the turn of the 21st century, George Mitchell crossed the Atlantic Ocean every few days in a matter of hours traveling from New York to London to Dublin to Belfast to Washington to New York, attempting to broker peace on an otherwise serene island.
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In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called “an emotional tour de force.”
