Transatlantic

McCann, Colum

ISBN 10: 1554689929 / ISBN 13: 9781554689927

Edité par HarperCollins Publishers, 2013

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N° de réf. du vendeur FORT609692

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Titre : Transatlantic

Éditeur : HarperCollins Publishers

Date d'édition : 2013

Reliure : hardcover

Etat : Good

Etat de la jaquette : Good

Edition : First Edition.

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Synopsis :

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.

À propos de l?auteur:

COLUM McCANN is the internationally bestselling author of seven novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and his previous novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children.