Автор: McCann Colum Название: Apeirogon ISBN: 1526607905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526607904 Издательство: Bloomsbury Цена: 2820.00 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Ready? You probably heard this quote: `Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.` But do you remember who said it? A) Samuel Beckett B) George Washington Carver C) Alexander Graham Bell D) E.E. Cummings? Or how about: `I pride myself on the fact that my work has no redeeming value.` Would that be A) Madonna B) Gene Simmons) C) John Waters D) Trey Parker?
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: McCann Colum Название: Let the great world spin ISBN: 0812973992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812973990 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1655.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: McCann Colum Название: This Side of Brightness ISBN: 0312421974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312421977 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: At the turn of the century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the sandhogs—black, white, Irish, Italian—dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Above ground, though, the men keep their distance until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow sandhogs that will both bless and curse three generations.
