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Title	:	TransAtlantic
Author	:	Colum McCann
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	June 4th 2013 by Random House (first published 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. European Literature. Irish Literature. Literary Fiction

TransAtlantic

Colum McCann

Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 23317 Users | 3296 Reviews

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Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators—Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown—set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber to heal the wounds of the Great War.

Dublin, 1845 and '46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause—despite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave.

New York, 1998. Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it has fallen to him, the son of an Irish-American father and a Lebanese mother, to shepherd Northern Ireland's notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion.

These three iconic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history. Beginning with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who crosses paths with Frederick Douglass, the novel follows her daughter and granddaughter, Emily and Lottie, and culminates in the present-day story of Hannah Carson, in whom all the hopes and failures of previous generations live on. From the loughs of Ireland to the flatlands of Missouri and the windswept coast of Newfoundland, their journeys mirror the progress and shape of history. They each learn that even the most unassuming moments of grace have a way of rippling through time, space, and memory.

The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year.

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Original Title:	TransAtlantic
ISBN:	1400069599 (ISBN13: 9781400069590)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Frederick Douglass, Arthur Brown, John Alcock, George Mitchell
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013), Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award Nominee (2014), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2015)

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I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that Transatlantic is a story told in fragments of interconnected lives. At the core are several generations of women who touch the lives of "great men" (the first transatlantic pilots, Frederick Douglass fighting for freedom, Senator Mitchell fighting for peace) Meanwhile, the women are "normal" women living generally average or, at least, uncelebrated lives. I found this book incredibly uneven. There were segments that I was engrossed in and those

This is a great book, sometimes dry but overall a brilliant historical work that looks at brilliant characters and picturesque settings with the thrill of airplane flying giving it a whole different kind of great quality. It took a while to read it, but I think it was definitely worth it.

When I was in graduate school, I wrote a paper on women's memoirs. One of the points that kept popping up in research is that, historically, memoirs were only written by Important People and, historically, Important People only included men. The result is that we often have to use less direct methods to discern what life was like for the women: unless we can read their diaries, letters and the like, the only stories we are left with have been filtered through men's lenses and only reflect the

This was enchanting to me. Three immersions in historical events and people that involve a crossing of the Atlantic between Ireland and North America. They happen to be male: two British airmen making the first crossing after World War 1; Frederick Douglass on a speaking tour of Ireland in 1845, and the former Maine Senator, George Mitchell, helping negotiate the Northern Ireland peace accord between 1995 and-1998. These disparate events have links though time by three generations of fictional

Trite but true, all good things must come to an end. I so wanted to keep reading the wonderful prose, the settings that let one think they are part of the story, and the wonderful characters that this novel contains. McCann has the knack of illuminating the everyday things of a person's life, hidden pride, glowing praise, love for country family and children. Everyday items, inconsequential things assume a meaning that often in apparent only in hindsight. Taking real historical characters and

I hope this review won't be a bunch of blathering because I want to do this book justice. This was my first time reading anything by this author, so I had no idea what his writing would be like or if he would make history come alive for me, which is why I read historical fiction in the first place. If I had wanted dry facts, I'd read a history book or a nonfiction book on whatever subject interested me. So I was pleased to discover that there was nothing dry about this book. It was one of those

I can understand why this book's rating is on the high side, and that's because as "artists" such as James Joyce, Jackson Pollock, John Cage, and pretty much everyone who's ever had a film in the Sundance festival demonstrate, there are a lot--a LOT--of people who can't tell the difference between high art and pretentious nonsense.Reading this book (and I really tried, but after just over 100 pages, I just couldn't take it anymore) is painfully like being the designated driver on karaoke night