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Zoli: A Novel

Zoli: A Novel

Colum McCann

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Colum McCann's TransAtlantic.
TransAtlantic

TransAtlantic

Colum McCann

Stitching these stories intricately together, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.
Understanding Colum McCann

Understanding Colum McCann

John Cusatis

Understanding Colum McCann chronicles the Irish-born writer's journey to literary celebrity from his days as a teenage sportswriter for the Irish Press in the 1970s, through the publication of his award-winning first story, "Tresses," in ...
Padraic Colum: a biographical-critical introduction

Padraic Colum: a biographical-critical introduction

Zack R. Bowen

Drawing upon his intimate knowledge of Colum’s writings, Bowen rates Colum’s plays as something less than the masterpieces they were thought to be, and he gives a valuable reading of Colum’s novels and especially useful categorization ...
This Side of Brightness

This Side of Brightness

Colum McCann

At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Dancer: A Novel

Dancer: A Novel

Colum McCann

The author of The Side of Brightness presents a fictional account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev, following his first ballet lessons under Anna Vasileva, his relationship with the ambitious Yulia, and his experiences with Venezuela hustler ...
Thirteen Ways of Looking

Thirteen Ways of Looking

Colum McCann

A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story award 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 ...
Why Are You So Sad?: A Novel

Why Are You So Sad?: A Novel

Jason Porter

This is a quick, odd, wonderful book, one that pinned me back on my heels and made me laugh." –Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin Have we all sunken into a species-wide bout of clinical depression?
Songdogs: A Novel

Songdogs: A Novel

Colum McCann

With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor ...
Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

Colum McCann

An anthology of twelve short stories about Irish misfits by the author of Dancer includes the tale of the anorexic nun who dies in a Long Island hospital and the talkative beautician who works with corpses, in a collection that explores the ...
Let The Great World Spin

Let The Great World Spin

Colum McCann

Weaving together themes of love, loss, belonging, duty and human striving, Let the Great World Spin celebrates the effervescent spirit of an age and the small beauties of everyday life.
Fearing Sellafield: what it is and why the Irish want it shut

Fearing Sellafield: what it is and why the Irish want it shut

Colum Kenny

Colum Kenny is senior lecturer in communications at Dublin City University.
Nordic Gods and Heroes

Nordic Gods and Heroes

Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum. Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 1996, is an unabridged and slightly altered republication of the work originally published by The Macmillan Company, New York, in 1920 under the title The Children of ...
Moments that Changed Us

Moments that Changed Us

Colum Kenny

A fascinating look at moments and events in Ireland's recent past that gives a unique insight into the transformation of Ireland. Colum Kenny s cool, analytical intelligence interprets Ireland and the Irish for the twenty-first century.
Golf in Broome County:

Golf in Broome County:

Jim Maggiore and Michael J. McCann

Jim Maggiore and Michael J. McCann. I M A G E S of Modern America Golf in Broome County Jim Maggiore and Michael J. McCann Copyright © 2015 by Jim Maggiore and Michael J. McCann.
The Story of the Golden Fleece

The Story of the Golden Fleece

Padraic Colum

Padraic Colum. “To the king and to the people Phrixus told his story, weeping to tell of Helle and her fall. Then King Æetes brought him into the city, and he gave him a place in the palace, and for the golden ram he had a special fold made.
The Essential Dave Allen

The Essential Dave Allen

Graham Mccann

He was a unique talent - a comic who could make his audiences laugh, cry, and be shocked, all in one. This official celebration of Dave Allen's comedy has been drawn together by Graham McCann - Britain's best-loved entertainment writer.
Frankie Howerd: Stand-up Comic

Frankie Howerd: Stand-up Comic

Graham McCann

Graham McCann vividly captures both Howerd's colorful career and precarious private life through extensive new research and original interviews with such figures as Paul McCartney, Eric Sykes, Bill Cotton, Barbara Windsor, Joan Simms, and ...
A Very Courageous Decision: The Inside Story of Yes Minister

A Very Courageous Decision: The Inside Story of Yes Minister

Graham McCann

In A Very Courageous Decision acclaimed entertainment historian Graham McCann goes in search of the real political fiascos that inspired Yes Minister.
The Low-fat Low-carb Southwest Cookbook

The Low-fat Low-carb Southwest Cookbook

Anne Lindsay Greer McCann

This new book reinvents Anne McCann's award-winning and nationally renowned Southwest dishes. Her expert and detailed advice, make this a cookbook especially reader-friendly.
(Un)civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions ...

(Un)civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions ...

Preview

See McCann and Lawson, forthcoming; Dominguez and Lawson forthcoming; Chappell Lawson and James A. McCann, "The Effects of Televised Debates on Candidate Evaluations in Mexico's 2000 Presidential Campaign," manuscript under ...
Porto romano e la peschiera di Cosa: guida breve

Porto romano e la peschiera di Cosa: guida breve

Anna Marguerite McCann

Anna Marguerite McCann began her work at Cosa in 1955 when she was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She directed the harbor excavations and research for some 20 years that resulted in the collaborative volume, ...
Barbarians Come to Market: The Emporia of Western Eurasia ...

Barbarians Come to Market: The Emporia of Western Eurasia ...

Heidi Michelle Sherman

3 (1982): 185 - 21 1; Anna Marguerite McCann, "Introduction: A Perspective," in The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa, ed. Anna Marguerite McCann, Joanne Bourgeois, et al. (Princeton, NJ, 1987), 3 - 14; Nicholas Purcell, "The Ports of Rome: ...
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths

The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths

Padraic Colum

The Book of Northern Myths Padraic Colum. "Good fishing," said Thor, as he put his own bait on the line. "It's something for you to tell the JEsir," said Hrymer. "I thought as you were here I'd show you something bigger than salmon-fishing.
The Low-fat Low-carb Southwest Cookbook

The Low-fat Low-carb Southwest Cookbook

Anne Lindsay Greer McCann

A completely revised edition of the James Beard-nominated The Ultimate Low-Fat Mexican Cookbook, this new book reinvents Anne McCann's award-winning and nationally renowned Southwest dishes.

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