This Side of Brightness - Softcover

McCann, Colum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140880591X ISBN 13: 9781408805916

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2010

Synopsis

By the author of Let the Great World Spin, this critically acclaimed novel delves deep into the underbelly of New York

'Vivid, potent, beautifully measured, and sustained by astonishingly deft description' Maggie O'Farrell
'A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak' New York Times Book Review
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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, a homeless man nicknamed 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.

About this title

About the Author

Colum McCann, originally from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of six novels and two collections of stories. His most recent novel, the New York Times bestseller Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and several other major international awards. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in New York.

www.colummccann.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140880591X
• ISBN 13: 9781408805916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256