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TransAtlantic [electronic resource] : a novel / Colum McCann.

by McCann, Colum, 1965-

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New York : Random House, [2013]

Transatlantic voyages -- Fiction.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=E280BB3F-FD31-4586-9462-F77091C71012 This title is available online; click here to access

9780679604594 (electronic bk.)

0679604596 (electronic bk.)

1 online resource (304 p.)

A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan.

Newfoundland, 1919: Aviators Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Dublin, 1845 and '46: On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause. New York, 1998: Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, to shepherd Northern Ireland's notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion. They each learn that even the most unassuming moments of grace have a way of rippling through time, space, and memory.

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