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Geraldine Hughes (narrator) and
Colum McCann
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
June 4, 2013
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307878007
ISBN-10
0307878007
Dimensions
1 by 5 by 6 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$40.00
Other format details
audio
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
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Everybody's Fool | The Summer Before the War | Career of Evil | Boys in the Trees | Circling the Sun | Thirteen Ways of Looking | The Boston Girl
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 Awardâwinning 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 âan emotional tour de force.â 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.
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Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviatorsâJack Alcock and Arthur Brownâset 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.
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Dublin, 1845 and â46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist causeâdespite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave.
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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 Irelandâs notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion.
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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.
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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
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âA dazzlingly talented authorâs latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCannâs most penetrating novel yet.ââO: The Oprah Magazine
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âOne 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.ââThe Boston Globe
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âIngenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, andâgiven that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American historyâin blood.ââEsquire
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âAnother sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy.ââThe Seattle Times
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âEntrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds musicâelation and sorrow.ââThe Denver Post
From the Hardcover edition.
In the National Book Awardâwinning 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 âan emotional tour de force.â 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.
Â
Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviatorsâJack Alcock and Arthur Brownâset 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.
Â
Dublin, 1845 and â46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist causeâdespite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave.
Â
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 Irelandâs notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion.
Â
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.
Â
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
Â
âA dazzlingly talented authorâs latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCannâs most penetrating novel yet.ââO: The Oprah Magazine
Â
âOne 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.ââThe Boston Globe
Â
âIngenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, andâgiven that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American historyâin blood.ââEsquire
Â
âAnother sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy.ââThe Seattle Times
Â
âEntrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds musicâelation and sorrow.ââThe Denver Post
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (June 5, 2013)
9781410459015 | details & prices | 463 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $32.99
About: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ⢠NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Awardâwinning 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 âan emotional tour de force.
About: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ⢠NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Awardâwinning 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 âan emotional tour de force.
from Random House Inc (June 4, 2013)
9781400069590 | details & prices | 300 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $27.00
from Bloomsbury Pub Ltd (May 23, 2013)
9781408829370 | details & prices | 298 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $31.95
Paperback
Large print edition from Large Print Pr (June 24, 2014)
9781594136856 | details & prices | 461 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $17.99
Reprint edition from Random House Inc (May 20, 2014)
9780812981926 | details & prices | 319 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.52 lbs | List price $16.00
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With Geraldine Hughes (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (June 4, 2013)
9780307878007 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $40.00
About: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ⢠NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Awardâwinning 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 âan emotional tour de force.
About: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ⢠NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSIn the National Book Awardâwinning 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 âan emotional tour de force.
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