Colum McCann, Author . Holt/Metropolitan $26 (356p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6792-7
A chorus of voices breathe new life into the story of Rudolf Nureyev, one of ballet's greatest performers, in this vibrant, imaginative patchwork of a novel by Irish expatriate McCann (This Side of Brightness,
etc.). As a seven-year-old peasant...
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Colum McCann, Author . Random $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6372-7
In his bittersweet fourth novel, McCann chronicles the imperiled world of the Slovakian Roma (Gypsies, to their enemies) from World War II through the establishment of the Communist bloc. After the pro-Nazi Hlinkas drown the rest of her family, six-y
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Colum McCann, Author . Random $25 (349p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6373-4
McCann's sweeping new novel hinges on Philippe Petit's illicit 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers. It is the aftermath, in which Petit appears in the courtroom of Judge Solomon Soderberg, that sets events into motion. Solomon,...
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Colum McCann, Author Metropolitan Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4106-4
Following his U.S. debut in the highly praised Songdogs, McCann's first collection of short stories is now published here, three years after its initial U.K. appearance. These are 12 exceptionally crafted and thought-provoking tales, in which we...
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Colum McCann, Author Metropolitan Books $21 (150p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6398-1
McCann, who distinguished himself among the impressive flood of recent Irish writers being well-published stateside with his remarkable book of stories, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, and the equally well-received Songdogs and This Side of Brightness,
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Colum McCann, Author Metropolitan Books $22.5 (212p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4104-0
Irish writer McCann's first novel is a powerful, sometimes mesmerizing commentary on the nature of family and identity, memory and loss. The story opens with 23-year-old narrator Conor Lyons, just returned to Ireland after a five-year trip abroad,...
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Colum McCann. Random, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6959-0
In 1919, two British veterans pilot a Vickers Vimy from Newfoundland to Ireland, becoming the first men to fly across the Atlantic, taking “the war out of the plane.” In 1845, escaped American slave Frederick Douglass comes to Ireland at the start...
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Colum McCann. Random, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9672-2
A novella evoking insecurity in the age of security cameras and three heartbreaking stories make up McCann’s (TransAtlantic) latest short-fiction collection. Various ways of looking—which are referenced in the title novella and serve as the...
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Colum McCann, read by Geraldine Hughes. Random House Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10.75 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-307-87800-7
McCann’s novel centers around three historical crossings from America to Ireland. Between 1845 and 1846, Frederick Douglass tours Ireland and England to promote the abolitionist movement, his autobiography, and to negotiate his freedom so he can...
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Colum McCann, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-14-752158-3
McCann’s reading, like his writing, is disconcerting at first. He will divide a sentence into staccato segments, then rapidly string many nouns or adjectives together. But soon the listener is rapt, as McCann’s tempo follows multiple narrators to...
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Colum McCann. Random House, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6960-6
National Book Award–winner McCann (Let the Great World Spin) bases this masterful novel on the lives of two real men working together toward Middle Eastern peace. Rami Elhanan, 67 on the single day of 2016 on which the main narrative takes place, is
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