Transatlantic : a novel
In his new novel, Colum McCann weaves together the stories of individual men and women from Newfoundland, Dublin and New York across two centuries. Their journeys are shaped by and reflect the progression of history.
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Transatlantic voyages > Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 > Ireland > Dublin > Fiction. Antislavery movements > Ireland > History > 19th century > Fiction. Abolitionists > Fiction. Irish Americans > Fiction. Air pilots > Fiction. Ireland > History > Fiction. |
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Historical fiction. Epic fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 1554689929
- ISBN: 9781554689927
- Physical Description 304 pages
- Edition 1st Canadian ed.
- Publisher Toronto : HarperCollins, [2013]
- Copyright ©2013
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TransAtlantic
A Globe & Mail 100 Selection "One story is all stories," says Colum McCann, author of the award-winning Let the Great World Spin In his remarkable new novel, Colum McCann masterfully reaches across the centuries to braid together three unforgettable stories. In 1845, Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling around him. In 1919, two brave young airmen emerge from the carnage of World War I to pilot the first transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the west of Ireland. And in 1998 an American senator criss-crosses the ocean in search of a lasting peace in Ireland. Taking these stories as his point of departure, Colum McCann weaves together the lives of Douglass, Alcock and Brown and Senator George Mitchell in a tapestry that is both ambitious and unforgettable.