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TransAtlantic (2013)

by Colum McCann(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1400069599 (ISBN13: 9781400069590)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Random House

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 but McCann is a master of intertwining seemingly unrelated story lines and bringing them together loosely or more intimately later in the book. In this case it spans from Fredrick Douglass to 2011, several generations, countries and continents. He is masterful at depicting the importance of living and how fleeting the time is that we are here. His themes of freedom won me over. Having Douglass, a slave in one country be a statesmen in another and his shock with a poverty worse in Ireland than anyt... morehing in the states was such a cool reframe of how we normally read about Douglass.
review 2: I'd forgotten how pleasurable it is to read Colum McCann. I will never look at ice the same way. This isn't a book that relies on plot. It sails on the sentences. The language drew me into parlor rooms, carriages, frozen lakes, a rickety plane a few feet above the waves of the Atlantic, a business class airport lounge, a Dublin flat, inside broken hearts. I'm glad I took my time to read it slowly. less

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