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This Side Of Brightness

This Side Of Brightness

by Colum Mc Cann (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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    Paperback 2003

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    Hardcover 1998

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Synopsis

On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and the air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to be suspended on a spume of water high above the river. Almost 90 years later, Treefrog, a homeless man, stumbles through the same corridor, under the twirling flakes of snow, to his makeshift home under the city. A love story in three generations, this is also about hope and despair and survival.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Dec 1998
ISBN 10: 075380476X
ISBN 13: 9780753804766
Book Overview: Reissued to coincide with first paperback publication of DANCER Fabulous new jackets for backlist, which will feature in the promotional material for DANCER 'Epic storytelling on the scale of Cormac McCarthy or Louis de Bernieres' Big Issue 'McCann's finest achievement to date, a tour de force' Sunday Independent 'Brave, ambitious and daring, This Side of Brightness succeeds in achieving epic status' Image 'McCann has all the credentials of becoming a literary star' Telegraph

Media Reviews
Luminescent. Colum McCann has taken the monumental force of the past and created from it a novel of wrenching emotional dimension, a novel resplendent with dignity. -- The Boston Globe
Inside the gritty and perilous lives of the men who dug the tunnels under New York' s East River, Irish novelist Colum McCann finds poetry....McCann' s prose shines like the waters of the East River on a bright winter day. -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Disturbingly beautiful...A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak. -- The New York Times Book Review

Luminescent. Colum McCann has taken the monumental force of the past and created from it a novel of wrenching emotional dimension, a novel resplendent with dignity. - The Boston Globe
Inside the gritty and perilous lives of the men who dug the tunnels under New York's East River, Irish novelist Colum McCann finds poetry....McCann's prose shines like the waters of the East River on a bright winter day. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Disturbingly beautiful...A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak. - The New York Times Book Review
Author Bio
Colum McCann was born in Dublin in 1965. His fiction has won numerous international awards including the Rooney Prize, the Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Award, a Pushcart Prize, and Esquire magazine's Writer of the Year award in 2003. In 2005 he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film. He was recently inducted into the Hennessy Hall of Fame in Dublin. His work has been published in twenty-six languages. He has travelled widely and is based in New York, where he lives with his wife and children.