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TransAtlantic

TransAtlantic( )
Author: McCann, Colum
ISBN:978-1-4088-4126-6
Publication Date:May 2013
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $27.99
Book Description:

1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Sagas
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.4 x 23.5 x 2.5 cm
Book Weight:0.486 Kilograms
Author Biography
McCann, Colum (Author)
Irish writer Colum McCann was born near Dublin in 1965 and graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. degree. He has worked as a newspaper journalist in Ireland and written several short stories and bestselling novels. The short film of Everything in this Country Must was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005.

McCann's work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Irish Times, La Repubblica, Die Zeit, Paris Match, the Guardian, and the Independent. He has won numerous awards, such as a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. In 2009 McCann was inducted into the Irish arts association Aosdana. He teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program at New York's Hunter College.

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