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Transatlantic as a novel defies the idea of setting by focusing on the experience of passage, and there are elements in the book which prove how very difficult it must be to remain there, to not get lost. The oprah magazine one of the greatest pleasures of transatlantic is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. In transatlantic, colum mccann uses a historic nonstop flight as a narrative anchor to take a kaleidoscopic look at more than 150 years of american and irish history. As he fleshes out their hopes and horrors, transatlantic gains altitude and velocity, its stories lifting and intersecting, the unopened correspondence a talisman passed from one generation to the next. Colum mccann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart. Get ebooks apeirogon on pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi and audiobook for free. The oprah magazine what distinguishes transatlantic from colum mccanns earlier work isnt the stunning language or the psychological acuity or the humor and imagination on. The first section contains three seemingly unrelated stories. From the national book awardwinning and bestselling author of let the great world spin comes an epic novel rooted in the reallife friendship between two.
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