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TRANSATLANTIC by Colum McCann, Book Review: Epic

TRANSATLANTIC by Colum McCann, Book Review: Epic

TransAtlantic Book Synopsis 1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters…

LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann, Book Review

LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann, Book Review

Let the Great World Spin Synopsis In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running,…