This Side of Brightness

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Colum McCann

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At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. But above ground, the men keep their distance until a dramatic accident on a bitter winter's day welds a bond between Walker and his fellow workers that will both bless and curse three generations. Almost ninety years later, Treefrog stumbles on the same tunnels and sets about creating a home amongst the drug addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes and petty criminals that comprise the forgotten homeless community.

Author Biography:

Colum McCann, born in Dublin, Ireland, is the author of five novels and two collections of stories. He has won numerous international literary awards. Zoli, Dancer and Let the Great World Spin (winner of the National Book Award) were international bestsellers and his fiction has been published in over thirty languages. He lives in New York.

Release date Australia

July 19th, 2010

Author

Colum McCann

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

256

ISBN-13

9781408805916

Product ID

6495090

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