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    American Mother

    Colum McCann, Diane Foley

    The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures…

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    Apeirogon

    Colum McCann

    How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live?

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    Let the Great World Spin

    Colum McCann

    Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller

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    Thirteen Ways of Looking

    Colum McCann

    Told from a multitude of perspectives, in lyrical, hypnotic prose, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a ground-breaking work of true resonance.

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    Everything in this Country Must

    Colum McCann

    In his fourth book, McCann turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and…

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    Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice

    Colum McCann

    A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, [this book] is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both…

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    Zoli

    Colum McCann

    A major new novel about a gypsy woman exiled for betraying her people, from the prize-winning author of DANCER

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    TransAtlantic

    Colum McCann

    An extraordinary new novel from bestselling and award-winning writer Colum McCann

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    Apeirogon: A Novel

    Colum McCann

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two…

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    Conversations with Colum McCann

    Brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent…

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    Conversations with Colum McCann

    Brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews…

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    American Mother

    Colum McCann, Diane Foley

    "One of the best books I've read in many, many years, if not in my life"--Anderson Cooper

    What does a mother say to the person responsible for kidnapping, torturing, and…

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    American Mother

    Colum McCann, Diane Foley

    'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

    The English language has…

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    Colum McCann: The Aesthetics of Redemption

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    Taking account of all of McCann’s literary fiction to date, Eoin Flannery considers the ways in which the writer navigates and negotiates between Ireland and the international, and between the…

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    This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann

    Touching on a host of central themes in author’s writing - emigration, race, performance, poverty, travel, nationality and globalization, this volume covers each of the author’s publications and includes a…

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    Dancer

    Colum McCann

    A novel based on the real life of Rudolf Nureyev.

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    TransAtlantic: A Novel

    Colum McCann

    McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel about that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites…

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    Zoli: A Novel

    Colum McCann

    The acclaimed author of Dancer and This Side of Brightness delivers a sensuous novel about exile, belonging, and survival, based loosely on the true story of the Romani poet Papsuza…

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    Songdogs: A Novel

    Colum McCann

    For years, Conor Lyons has searched in vain for his mother. Now, at 23, he returns to his native Ireland, to find his father fishing obsessively in a polluted local…

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    Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

    Colum McCann

    The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement.

    There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New…

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    This Side of Brightness

    Colum McCann

    At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson…

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    Letters to a Young Writer

    Colum McCann

    I hope there is something here for any young writer - or any older writer, for that matter - who happens to be looking for a teacher to come along…

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    Songdogs

    Colum McCann

    A powerful novel from the bestselling author of DANCER.

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    Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

    Colum McCann

    In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious…

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    Fishing the Sloe-Black River

    Colum McCann

    A collection of 12 short stories set in Ireland and among the Irish in the US, these are tales of exile and displacement - of characters always in search of…

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    Apeirogon: A Novel

    Colum McCann

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two…

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    Thirteen Ways of Looking: A Novella and Three Stories

    Colum McCann

    Includes reader’s guide (pages 247-249).

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    Dancer

    Colum McCann

    Taking his inspiration from biographical facts, novelist McCann tells the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the cast of those who knew him. And at the…

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    Dancer

    Colum McCann

    A tour de force about the life of a dancer.

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    This Side of Brightness

    Colum McCann

    At the turn of the century, New York’s sandhogs burrowed beneath the East River, digging the tunnels that would link Brooklyn to Manhattan; many decades later, those same tunnels offer…

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    Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another

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    The intertext is the effective presence of a text in another one. This relation of co-presence between texts is the subject of the present essay. Colum McCann’s work is studied…

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    This Side of Brightness

    Colum McCann

    At the turn of the century, New York’s sandhogs burrowed beneath the East River, digging the tunnels that would link Brooklyn to Manhattan; many decades later, those same tunnels offer…

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    Norman Mailer. Moonfire. La Prodigieuse Aventure d'Apollo 11

    Norman Mailer,Colum McCann

    Un des plus grands ecrivains du XXe siecle immortalise l'evenement cle de la science moderne. Decouvrez les hommes, la machinerie et le pur frisson de la mission lunaire a travers…

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    Best European Fiction 2011

    Aleksandar Hemon,Colum McCann

    For 2011 Hemon is back as editor, along with a new Preface by McCann, and with a whole new cast of authors and stories, including work from countries not included…

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    Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11

    Norman Mailer,Colum McCann

    On July 20, 1969, after a decade of tests and training, supported by a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, and with a budget of billions, the most powerful rocket…

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    When the Bulbul Stopped Singing: Life in Palestine During an Israeli Siege

    Raja Shehadeh

    Originally published: London: Profile Books, 2003.

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    L'autrefois et l'ailleurs; Poetique de la rupture dans l'oeuvre litteraire de Colum McCann

    Cecile Maudet

    C'est la qualite transculturelle, atemporelle et transgenerique des textes de Colum McCann qui interesse cet ouvrage. L'auteur n'ancre completement son oeuvre dans aucune tradition, aucun courant ou mode defini, et…

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    At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing: A Library of America Special Publication

    Named a best book of 2011 by the San Francisco Chronicle, this gritty and glittering anthology highlights the very best writing about boxing.

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    Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence

    A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted;;Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by…

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    Once More to the Sky: The Rebuilding of the World Trade Center

    Scott Raab,Joe Woolhead

    The powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, featuring dozens of never-before-seen color photos by the official site photographer.

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    Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War

    Matt Gallagher,Roy Scranton,Colum McCann,Siobhan Fallon,Colby Buzzell

    A unique collection of hard-hitting and poignant short stories written by twelve veterans, and one military spouse, of America’s recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

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    Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

    Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such…

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