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2020., HarperCollins Call No: Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly crowds, and again when thirteen-year-old Smadar becomes the victim of suicide bombers. When Bassam and Rami learn one another's stories and the loss that connects them, they become part of a much larger tale that ranges over centuries and continents. Apeirogon is a novel that balances on the knife edge of fiction and nonfiction. Bassam and Rami are real men and their actual words are a part of this narrative, one that builds through thousands of moments and images into one grand, unforgettable crescendo"--
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c2009., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic McC Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "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<U+2019>s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people."--Inside front jacket.
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c2015., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Fic McC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the author of the award-winning novel TRANSATLANTIC comes an eponymous novella and three stories that range fluidly across time, tenderly exploring the act of writing and the moment of creation when characters come alive on the page; the lifetime consequences that can come from a simple act; and the way our lives play across the world, marking language, image and each other. It is framed by two author's notes, each dealing with the brutal attack the author suffered last year and strikes at the heart of contemporary issues at home and in Ireland, the author's birth place.
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c2013., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic McC Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In his new novel, Colum McCann weaves together the stories of individual men and women from Newfoundland, Dublin and New York across two centuries. Their journeys are shaped by and reflect the progression of history.
