TransAtlantic : A Novel (Paperback)

from lit_chick

"There is always room for at least two truths." (152) TransAtlantic opens in 1919 where two young airmen who have managed to exit WWI intact, will pilot the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. In 1845, a black American slave travels to Ireland, championing his ideals...

from RidgewayGirl

Floating icebergs below. The roughly furrowed sea. They know there will be no turning back. It is all mathematics now. To convert the fuel into time and distance. To set the throttle for the optimum burn. To know the angles and the edges, and the spaces in between. Colum McCann's Booker longliste...

from EBT1002

I just completed reading *TransAtlantic* and it left me breathless. An exquisite blend of tragedy and optimism, McCann's newest novel weaves together several story lines and lives. Starting with the gut-dropping story of Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown flying an old war plane from Newfoundland to Ir...

from michigantrumpet

"But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again and again from grave after grave." This Wendell Berry epigraph neatly describes this delightful set of interconnected short stories by Colum McCann. In "Transatlantic" we make ou...

from brenzi

TransAtlantic opens with the daring first ever flight across the Atlantic from New Foundland to Ireland by two young WWI airmen, Jack Alcock and Teddy Brown, in 1919. Not many literary novelists start their narrative with an edge-of-your-seat, thrill-a-minute description, but then McCann is not y...