This Side Of Brightness

This Side Of Brightness

by Colum Mc Cann (Author)

Synopsis

A breakthrough novel for one of the most gifted of the current generation of Irish writers. Ostensibly a love story in three generations, THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS is about many other things: about the building - and decline - of America; about the races who live there; about love, hope and despair; but most of all about the survival of the human spirit.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: W&N
Published: 12 Jan 1998

ISBN 10: 1897580193
ISBN 13: 9781897580196
Book Overview: * An author with both an Irish and an international following * Winner of the 1994 Rooney prize for Irish Literature * Songdogs received great critical plaudits'McCann comes garlanded with awards. ..and with praise from Edna O'Brien; and I am not suprised. He is the real thing;Allan Maisse Scotsman * Fishing the sloe-Black River has just received a Publishers Weekly starred review: This superlative collection shows an impeccable command of syle and language. * A novel which will move McCann into the ranks of the literary star: rights have thus far been sold in over nine countries.

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.