About Colum McCann. TransAtlantic, by Colum McCann . The author keeps close to the main facts while fictionalizing the anecdotes, thoughts and actions of his characters throughout the stories. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review A little ambiguity is needed to counterbalance McCann's rhapsodic charm Theo Tait. Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections and the nonfiction book Letters to a Young Writer. transatlantic by Colum McCann ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 4, 2013 A masterful and profoundly moving novel that employs exquisite language to explore the limits of language and the tricks of memory. Sat 1 Jun 2013 03.30 EDT …
In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann has transfixed listeners with his precision, tenderness, and authority.Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts the territory of chance and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments. His fiction has been published in over… Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann’s most penetrating novel yet.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “One of the greatest pleasures of TransAtlantic is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. In the opening pages of Colum McCann’s new novel Transatlantic, two veterans of the Great War meet for the first time and recognize one another as kindred spirits.“Alcock and Brown took one look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,” McCann writes. Colum McCann is the award-winning author of seven novels and three collections of short stories. Transatlantic by Colum McCann is a page turning novel that brings together both real and fictional characters across different centuries. His most recent novel, Apeirogon (to be published in February 2020) has already received several rave advance reviews, including starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist. This novel tells the story of 3 historical events.
. . Inspired in part by Alcock and Brown’s pioneering transatlantic flight, the Irish author’s new novel is his finest since ‘This Side of Brightness’ . Review by Angelica Baker.