This Side of Brightness
Autor Colum McCannen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2002
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"This Side of Brightness" by Colum McCann
At the turn of the century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the sandhogs--black, white, Irish, Italian--dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Above ground, though, the men keep their distance until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow sandhogs that will both bless and curse three generations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780312421977
ISBN-10: 0312421974
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 142 x 209 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Picador USA
ISBN-10: 0312421974
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 142 x 209 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Picador USA
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Notă biografică
Colum McCann is the author of the highly acclaimed Songdogs and Fishing the Sloe-Black River, which received the Hennessey Award for Best First Fiction, Ireland's top literary honor. He lives in New York City.
Descriere
At the turn of the century, New York's sandhogs burrowed beneath the East River, digging the tunnels that would link Brooklyn to Manhattan; many decades later, those same tunnels offer refuge to the desperate and homeless. Spanning 70 years, McCann's acclaimed novel tells the story of three generations bound to the tunnels by ill-fated loves, unintended crimes, and social taboos.
Recenzii
It is, perhaps, the first authentic novel about homeless, about living below and beyond this rich city. He evokes so powerfully the stink of the present, the poignancy of the past
Vivid, potent, beautifully measured, and sustained by astonishingly deft description
A tour de-force social history of modern New York, exploring the labyrinthine netherworld of disused subway tunnels, from their creation by Irish migrant workers to their occupation by down-and-outs
Disturbingly beautiful ... A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak
A rarity in this cool era - the urban saga with a social conscience, employing the large canvas once used by Steinbeck and Algren
It is partly a story of the men who dug and blasted New York's tunnels and of the high-steel workers who turned horizontal astonishment upon its vertical end, balancing hundreds of teetery feet above the streets to subdue the swinging girders and bolt them together into skyscrapers. Told with gripping realism and subtle detail, the facts - history researched - glow like jewels
Vivid, potent, beautifully measured, and sustained by astonishingly deft description
A tour de-force social history of modern New York, exploring the labyrinthine netherworld of disused subway tunnels, from their creation by Irish migrant workers to their occupation by down-and-outs
Disturbingly beautiful ... A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak
A rarity in this cool era - the urban saga with a social conscience, employing the large canvas once used by Steinbeck and Algren
It is partly a story of the men who dug and blasted New York's tunnels and of the high-steel workers who turned horizontal astonishment upon its vertical end, balancing hundreds of teetery feet above the streets to subdue the swinging girders and bolt them together into skyscrapers. Told with gripping realism and subtle detail, the facts - history researched - glow like jewels
Premii
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominee, 2000