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_aPR6063.C335 _bT73 2013 |
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_aFIC MCC _2 |
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_aMcCann, Colum _d(, 1965-) |
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_aTransAtlantic _b: a novel _c/ Colum McCann. |
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_a319 pages _c; 21 cm |
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| 520 | _aIn 1846, Lily Duggan, a Dublin servant girl, embarks for New York City on a quest for personal freedom. Her journey initiates a family saga connecting the lives of four women with Frederick Douglass's Irish journey in 1845, British aviators Alcock and Brown's 1919 flight from Newfoundland to Ireland, and U.S. Senator George Mitchell's work on the 1998 Belfast Agreement. The lives of Lily and her descendants resonate with shared experiences and an elusive yearning for fulfillment that often expresses itself as a plea for justice. At other times, this desire occupies a vacant existence caused by loss. The story closes with Hannah Carson, Lily's great-granddaughter, nearly forced from the family cottage on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland, surprised by the tenderness of strangers wishing to create with her something new from her longing for the past. | ||
| 546 | _aEnglish. | ||
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_aTransatlantic voyages _v--Fiction |
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| 655 | 4 | _aHistorical fiction | |
| 655 | 4 | _aEpic fiction | |
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