6/21/2023 0 Comments TransAtlantic by Colum McCann![]() Frederick Douglass, the American social reformer and writer, is on a four-month lecture tour of Ireland, accompanied by his publisher, Richard Webb. ![]() ![]() The following excerpt, adapted from the book’s third chapter, takes place during the first year of the Irish famine. Fact and fiction mingle as three generations of mothers and daughters bear witness to historic events including John Alcock and Arthur Brown’s attempt to fly the first nonstop flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland in 1919 and Senator George Mitchell’s 1998 trip to Belfast to begin the peace talks that would result in the Good Friday Agreement. His novel TransAtlantic is another tour de force: a series of narratives spanning 150 years and both sides of the Atlantic. ![]() An excerpt adapted from Colum McCann’s novel, TransAtlantic.Ĭolum McCann won the National Book Award in 2012 for Let the Great World Spin, which through an extraordinary feat of storytelling connects a disparate group of ordinary New Yorkers to Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. ![]()
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