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TransAtlantic: A Novel - Hardcover By McCann, Colum - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9781400069590
- Book Title
- Transatlantic : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Sagas, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.6in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS 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 that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined. 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. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause--despite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave. New York, 1998. 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. These three iconic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history. Beginning with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who crosses paths with Frederick Douglass, the novel follows her daughter and granddaughter, Emily and Lottie, and culminates in the present-day story of Hannah Carson, in whom all the hopes and failures of previous generations live on. From the loughs of Ireland to the flatlands of Missouri and the windswept coast of Newfoundland, their journeys mirror the progress and shape of history. 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. Praise for TransAtlantic "A dazzlingly talented author's latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann's most penetrating novel yet." -- O: The Oprah Magazine "One of the greatest pleasures of TransAtlantic is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. . . . Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday." -- The Boston Globe "Ingenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, and--given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history--in blood." -- Esquire "Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy." -- The Seattle Times "Entrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music--elation and sorrow." -- The Denver Post
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Random House Publishing Group
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1400069599
ISBN-13
9781400069590
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Book Title
Transatlantic : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.6in
Item Weight
20 oz
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Reviews
"This novel is beautifully hypnotic in its movements, from the grand (between two continents, across three centuries) to the most subtle. Silkily threading together public events and private feelings, TransAtlantic says no to death with every line. Those who can't see the point of historical novels will find their answer here: in all intelligent fiction, the past has not passed." -Emma Donoghue, author of Room "A dazzlingly talented author's latest high-wire act . . . National Book Award winner Colum McCann weaves an intricate tapestry that illuminates the anguish of Irish history and the deeper agonies of war. TransAtlantic reads as a series of interconnected novellas, shifting between decades, among an unlikely cast of richly drawn characters. . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann's most penetrating novel yet." - O: The Oprah Magazine "What distinguishes TransAtlantic from McCann's earlier work isn't the stunning language or the psychological acuity or the humor and imagination on display-all of that has been there before. It's the sheer ambition, the audacity to imagine within the same novel the experience of Frederick Douglass . . . then the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight . . . then to leap into the near-present and embody the former senator George Mitchell . . . and finally to unite these stories, to give them even larger purpose than the historical significance they already possess, by knitting through and around them the stories of four generations of women." -Joel Lovell, The New York Times Magazine "Ingenious . . . The intricate connections he has crafted between the stories of his women and our men will, by the end, have you trying to figure out, in pencil, what he seems to have written in air, in water, and-given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history-in blood." -Tom Junod, Esquire " Let The Great World Spin is one of the twenty-first century's most celebrated novels thus far-with a National Book Award and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award among its lauds. Not an easy act to follow. But McCann is an acrobat. . . . TransAtlantic is entrancing. . . . Trusting and economic, McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music-elation and sorrow." -Tucker Shaw, The Denver Post From the Hardcover edition., "A dazzlingly talented author's latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann's most penetrating novel yet." -- O: The Oprah Magazine "What distinguishes TransAtlantic from [Colum] McCann's earlier work isn't the stunning language or the psychological acuity or the humor and imagination on display--all of that has been there before. It's the sheer ambition, the audacity to imagine within the same novel the experience of Frederick Douglass in 1845 . . . then the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in 1919 . . . then to leap into the near-present and embody the former senator George Mitchell, . . . knitting through and around them the stories of four generations of women." -- The New York Times Magazine "One of the greatest pleasures of TransAtlantic is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. . . . Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday." -- The Boston Globe "Ingenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, and--given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history--in blood." -- Esquire "Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy." -- The Seattle Times "Entrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music--elation and sorrow." -- The Denver Post, "This novel is beautifully hypnotic in its movements, from the grand (between two continents, across three centuries) to the most subtle. Silkily threading together public events and private feelings, TransAtlantic says no to death with every line. Those who can't see the point of historical novels will find their answer here: in all intelligent fiction, the past has not passed." --Emma Donoghue, author of Room "A dazzlingly talented author's latest high-wire act . . . National Book Award winner Colum McCann weaves an intricate tapestry that illuminates the anguish of Irish history and the deeper agonies of war. TransAtlantic reads as a series of interconnected novellas, shifting between decades, among an unlikely cast of richly drawn characters. . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann's most penetrating novel yet." -- O: The Oprah Magazine "What distinguishes TransAtlantic from McCann's earlier work isn't the stunning language or the psychological acuity or the humor and imagination on display--all of that has been there before. It's the sheer ambition, the audacity to imagine within the same novel the experience of Frederick Douglass . . . then the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight . . . then to leap into the near-present and embody the former senator George Mitchell . . . and finally to unite these stories, to give them even larger purpose than the historical significance they already possess, by knitting through and around them the stories of four generations of women." --Joel Lovell, The New York Times Magazine "Ingenious . . . The intricate connections he has crafted between the stories of his women and our men will, by the end, have you trying to figure out, in pencil, what he seems to have written in air, in water, and--given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history--in blood." --Tom Junod, Esquire " Let The Great World Spin is one of the twenty-first century's most celebrated novels thus far--with a National Book Award and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award among its lauds. Not an easy act to follow. But McCann is an acrobat. . . . TransAtlantic is entrancing. . . . Trusting and economic, McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music--elation and sorrow." --Tucker Shaw, The Denver Post, "A dazzlingly talented author's latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann's most penetrating novel yet." -- O: The Oprah Magazine "What distinguishes TransAtlantic from [Colum] McCann's earlier work isn't the stunning language or the psychological acuity or the humor and imagination on display--all of that has been there before. It's the sheer ambition, the audacity to imagine within the same novel the experience of Frederick Douglass in 1845 . . . then the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in 1919 . . . then to leap into the near-present and embody the former senator George Mitchell, . . . knitting through and around them the stories of four generations of women." -- The New York Times Magazine "One of the greatest pleasures of TransAtlantic is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. . . . Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday." -- The Boston Globe "Ingenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, and--given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history--in blood." -- Esquire "Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy." -- The Seattle Times "Entrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music--elation and sorrow." -- The Denver Post, Praise for Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, Winner of the National Book Award "One of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years."-Jonathan Mahler, The New York Times Book Review "There's so much passion and humor and pure life force on every page that you'll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed."-Dave Eggers "Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope."- USA Today "Marvelously rich . . . a Joycean look at the lives of New Yorkers changed by a single act on a single day."- The Seattle Times "McCann's gift [is] finding grace in grief and magic in the mundane, and immersing the reader in these thoroughly."- San Francisco Chronicle "An act of pure bravado."- O: The Oprah Magazine, Advance praise for TransAtlantic "This novel is beautifully hypnotic in its movements, from the grand (between two continents, across three centuries) to the most subtle. Silkily threading together public events and private feelings, TransAtlantic says no to death with every line."-Emma Donoghue "A masterful and profoundly moving novel that employs exquisite language to explore the limits of language and the tricks of memory . . . epic in ambition . . . audacious in format."- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A beautiful writer . . . This is what interests McCann: lives made amid and despite violence; the hidden braids of places, times, and peop≤ the way the old days 'arrive back in the oddest ways.' " -Publishers Weekly Praise for Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, Winner of the National Book Award "One of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years."-Jonathan Mahler, The New York Times Book Review "Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope."- USA Today "There's so much passion and humor and pure life force on every page that you'll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed."-Dave Eggers From the Hardcover edition.
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2013
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2012-043294
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823/.914
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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