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TransAtlantic
- Author
- Colum McCann
- Narrator
- Geraldine Hughes
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 23 January 2020
- Run Time
- 10 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013
'It is, simply, perfect' Irish Examiner
'Majestic' Sunday Times
'Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I’ve read in some time' Independent
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In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland.
In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet.
And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace.
Stitching these stories intricately together, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.
Critics Review
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It is, simply, perfect
Irish Examiner
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Majestic
Sunday Times
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Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I’ve read in some time ... A novel of true resonance and power
Independent
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His vivid, reactive and heartfelt fiction lives and breathes, sighs and weeps
Irish Times
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Beautifully hypnotic … Those who can’t see the point of historical novels will find their answer here
Emma Donoghue, author of Room
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A very gifted, charming writer; in full, rhapsodic-onrush mode, he is hard to resist
Guardian
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Beautifully poignant
Mail on Sunday
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Details
- Author
- Colum McCann
- Narrator
- Geraldine Hughes
- Duration
- 10 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 January 2020
- ISBN
- 9781526622396
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents TransAtlantic by Colum McCann, read by Geraldine Hughes.SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013'It is, simply, perfect' Irish Examiner'Majestic' Sunday Times'Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I’ve read in some time' Independent____________________In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland.In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet.And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace.Stitching these stories intricately together, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.
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