This Side Of Brightness - Softcover

Críticas

"Luminescent. Colum McCann has taken the monumental force of the past and created from it a novel of wrenching emotional dimension, a novel resplendent with dignity." --"The Boston Globe""Inside the gritty and perilous lives of the men who dug the tunnels under New York's East River, Irish novelist Colum McCann finds poetry....McCann's prose shines like the waters of the East River on a bright winter day."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer""Disturbingly beautiful...A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Luminescent. Colum McCann has taken the monumental force of the past and created from it a novel of wrenching emotional dimension, a novel resplendent with dignity." -"The Boston Globe" "Inside the gritty and perilous lives of the men who dug the tunnels under New York's East River, Irish novelist Colum McCann finds poetry....McCann's prose shines like the waters of the East River on a bright winter day."-"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "Disturbingly beautiful...A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak." -"The New York Times Book Review" " Luminescent. Colum McCann has taken the monumental force of the past and created from it a novel of wrenching emotional dimension, a novel resplendent with dignity." -- "The Boston Globe" " Inside the gritty and perilous lives of the men who dug the tunnels under New York' s East River, Irish novelist Colum McCann finds poetry....McCann' s prose shines like the waters of the East River on a bright winter day." -- "The Philadelphia Inquirer" " Disturbingly beautiful...A dazzling blend of menace and heartbreak." -- "The New York Times Book Review"

Reseña del editor

On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and the air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to be suspended on a spume of water high above the river. Almost 90 years later, Treefrog, a homeless man, stumbles through the same corridor, under the twirling flakes of snow, to his makeshift home under the city.

A love story in three generations, this is also about hope and despair and survival.