Books by Colum McCann
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review 1: The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was there were points where the descriptions went on too long. Personally, I find it tedious when a description of just about anything goes on for longer than a couple of paragraphs. THAT said, I loved this book. It took awhile to get into...
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review 1: Fire and Forget is an important contribution to our growing body of Iraq/Afghanistan vet-lit. I am so struck by the disconnect between the dark and painful personal consequences of these wars for the warriors who actually fought them and the arrogant pomposity of the men whose l...
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review 1: McCann's form and style is truly innovative, but he takes it upon himself to absolutely bury it underneath supposedly astounding but entirely one-dimensional characters, situations that take far too long to come together, and the allure of a famous event that only gets mentioned ...
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review 1: Let the Great World Spin, by New York Times Bestselling author, Colum McCann, is a novel that follows the lives of several different characters who all either witnessed or heard about one event - a tightrope walker walking between the World Trade Center buildings in August 1974 -...