The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said - Illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker, Colum Padraic
Автор: Colum McCann Название: Let The Great World Spin ISBN: 1408801183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408801185 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 1484.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller
Автор: McCann Colum Название: TransAtlantic ISBN: 1408841266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408841266 Издательство: Bloomsbury Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 can be reached? 1845.
Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. On his travels he inspires a young maid to go to New York to embrace a free world, but the land does not always fulfill its promises for her. From the violent battlefields of the Civil War to the ice lakes of northern Missouri, it is her youngest daughter Emily who eventually finds her way back to Ireland.
Can we pass from the new world to the old? How does the past shape the future? In TransAtlantic, National Book Award-winning Colum McCann has achieved an outstanding act of literary bravura. Intricately crafted, poetic and deeply affecting it weaves together personal stories to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.
Автор: Colum McCann Название: Let The Great World Spin ISBN: 1408808684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408808689 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 890.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and, Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York. In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever.
