https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/tccl/rss/search?query=McCann%2C%20Colum%2C&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeFri, 06 Mar 2026 02:41:25 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6881405https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6881405Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6881405063BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593241738/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=1443717975https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C3663465https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C3663465Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3663465063BKSome Practical and Philosophical Adviceenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399590801/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C5121265https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C5121265Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5121265063BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780812973990/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=859401642https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C2494183https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C2494183Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2494183063LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781602857643/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=502158879NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.

Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.
Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.”
A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic.

“This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it’s a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There’s so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.”—Dave Eggers

“Stunning . . . [an] elegiac glimpse of hope . . . It’s a novel rooted firmly in time and place. It vividly captures New York at its worst and best. But it transcends all that. In the end, it’s a novel about families—the ones we’re born into and the ones we make for ourselves.”—USA Today]]>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C202980https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C202980Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/202980980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781588368737/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “urgent [and] ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
“The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean.”—Salman Rushdie

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken.”
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth.
Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress, Zanele, who must leave to go on her own literary adventure to London.
When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging, and the perils of our severed connections. Can we, in our fractured world, reweave ourselves out of the thin, broken threads of our pasts? Can the ruptured things awaken us from our despair?
Resoundingly simple and turbulent at the same time, Twist is a meditation on the nature of narrative and truth from one of the great storytellers of our times.]]>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10971595https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10971595Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10971595980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217020645/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers—one Palestinian, one Israeli, both connected by grief and working together for peace—from the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin

“A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”—Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire

FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent • The New York Public Library • Library Journal
 
Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate.
 
But their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: first, Rami’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers; a decade later, Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. And yet, when they learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them. Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace—and with their one small act, start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict.
 
This extraordinary novel is the fruit of a seed planted when the novelist Colum McCann met the real Bassam and Rami on a trip with the non-profit organization Narrative 4. McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world, by their hope that if they could see themselves in one another, perhaps others could too.
 
With their blessing, and unprecedented access to their families, lives, and personal recollections, McCann began to craft Apeirogon, which uses their real-life stories to begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. The result is an ambitious novel, crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, with these fathers’ moving story at its heart.]]>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4788132https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4788132Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4788132980EAUDIOBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307878076/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C3243484https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C3243484Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3243484063BKFictionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780812996722/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=905970102NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • The Independent

In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award–winning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments.
“As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.”
In the exuberant title novella, a retired judge reflects on his life’s work, unaware as he goes about his daily routines that this particular morning will be his last. In “Sh’khol,” a mother spending Christmas alone with her son confronts the unthinkable when he disappears while swimming off the coast near their home in Ireland. In “Treaty,” an elderly nun catches a snippet of a news report in which it is revealed that the man who once kidnapped and brutalized her is alive, masquerading as an agent of peace. And in “What Time Is It Now, Where You Are?” a writer constructs a story about a Marine in Afghanistan calling home on New Year’s Eve.
Deeply personal, subtly subversive, at times harrowing, and indeed funny, yet also full of comfort, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a striking achievement. With unsurpassed empathy for his characters and their inner lives, Colum McCann forges from their stories a profound tribute to our search for meaning and grace. The collection is a rumination on the power of storytelling in a world where language and memory can sometimes falter, but in the end do not fail us, and a contemplation of the healing power of literature.
Praise for Thirteen Ways of Looking
“Extraordinary . . . incandescent.”—Chicago Tribune
“The irreducible mystery of human experience ties this small collection together, and in each of these stories McCann explores that theme in some strikingly effective ways. . . . [The first story] is as fascinating as it is poignant. . . . [The second] captures the mundane and mysterious aspects of shaping characters from the gray clay of words, placing them in realistic settings and breathing life into their lungs. . . . That he makes the story so emotionally compelling is a sign of his genius. . . . The most remarkable [piece] is Sh’khol. . . . Caught in the rushing currents of this drama, you know you’re reading a little masterpiece.”—The Washington Post
“McCann is a writer of power and subtlety and beauty. . . . The powerful title story loiters in the mind long after you’ve read it.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
“[McCann] unspools complex and unforgettable stories in this, his first collection in more than a decade.”—The Boston Globe
“McCann is a passionate writer whose impulse is always toward a generous understanding of his diverse characters.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Powerful, profound, and deeply empathetic, McCann’s beautifully wrought writing in Thirteen Ways of Looking glides off the page.”—BuzzFeed
“McCann...]]>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2163738https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2163738Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2163738980EAUDIOBOOKFictionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780147521613/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13977468https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13977468Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13977468981EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848665/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13979185https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13979185Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13979185981EBOOKStoriesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848689/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13973179https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13973179Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13973179981EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848696/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13981704https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13981704Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13981704981EBOOKA Novella and Two Storiesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848672/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13972972https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C13972972Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/13972972981EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848702/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C16875367https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C16875367Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/16875367981EBOOKStoriesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848689/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C17072734https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C17072734Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/17072734981EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848696/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C16985476https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C16985476Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/16985476981EBOOKA Novella and Two Storiesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848672/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C16875227https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S981C16875227Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/16875227981EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781466848665/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6998885https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6998885Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6998885063LPRINTenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798217070398/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=1495134014https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6693625https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C6693625Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6693625063BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798985882452/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=1376495119https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C5576446https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C5576446Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/5576446063PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781094259086/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=1143827508https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C4649089https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C4649089Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4649089063BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400069606/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C2856443https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S63C2856443Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2856443063BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400069590/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=822028586INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “urgent [and] ingenious” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean—from the New York Times bestselling author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin
“The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean.”—Salman Rushdie

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Everything gets fixed, and we all stay broken.”
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth.
Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress, Zanele, who must leave to go on her own literary adventure to London.
When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging, and the perils of our severed connections. Can we, in our fractured world, reweave ourselves out of the thin, broken threads of our pasts? Can the ruptured things awaken us from our despair?
Resoundingly simple and turbulent at the same time, Twist is a meditation on the nature of narrative and truth from one of the great storytellers of our times.]]>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10967909https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10967909Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10967909980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593241745/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Los Angeles Times • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • The Independent

In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award–winning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments.
“As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.”
In the exuberant title novella, a retired judge reflects on his life’s work, unaware as he goes about his daily routines that this particular morning will be his last. In “Sh’khol,” a mother spending Christmas alone with her son confronts the unthinkable when he disappears while swimming off the coast near their home in Ireland. In “Treaty,” an elderly nun catches a snippet of a news report in which it is revealed that the man who once kidnapped and brutalized her is alive, masquerading as an agent of peace. And in “What Time Is It Now, Where You Are?” a writer constructs a story about a Marine in Afghanistan calling home on New Year’s Eve.
Deeply personal, subtly subversive, at times harrowing, and indeed funny, yet also full of comfort, Thirteen Ways of Looking is a striking achievement. With unsurpassed empathy for his characters and their inner lives, Colum McCann forges from their stories a profound tribute to our search for meaning and grace. The collection is a rumination on the power of storytelling in a world where language and memory can sometimes falter, but in the end do not fail us, and a contemplation of the healing power of literature.
Praise for Thirteen Ways of Looking
“Extraordinary . . . incandescent.”—Chicago Tribune
“The irreducible mystery of human experience ties this small collection together, and in each of these stories McCann explores that theme in some strikingly effective ways. . . . [The first story] is as fascinating as it is poignant. . . . [The second] captures the mundane and mysterious aspects of shaping characters from the gray clay of words, placing them in realistic settings and breathing life into their lungs. . . . That he makes the story so emotionally compelling is a sign of his genius. . . . The most remarkable [piece] is Sh’khol. . . . Caught in the rushing currents of this drama, you know you’re reading a little masterpiece.”—The Washington Post
“McCann is a writer of power and subtlety and beauty. . . . The powerful title story loiters in the mind long after you’ve read it.”—Sarah Lyall, The New York Times
“[McCann] unspools complex and unforgettable stories in this, his first collection in more than a decade.”—The Boston Globe
“McCann is a passionate writer whose impulse is always toward a generous understanding of his diverse characters.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Powerful, profound, and deeply empathetic, McCann’s beautifully wrought writing in Thirteen Ways of Looking glides off the page.”—BuzzFeed
“McCann...]]>https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2184853https://tccl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2184853Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://tccl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2184853980EBOOKFictionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780812996739/MC.GIF&client=tulpl&type=xw12&oclc=