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A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program. He has received many honors, including the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres award from the French government, and the Ireland Fund

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. 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. 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 IndependentIn

An Best Book of October 2015: The great, enviable quality of Colum McCann’s books– the thing that wins him prizes (National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin), fellowships (a Guggenheim) and fans (both as a teacher, at Hunter College in New York where he mentored last year’s national book award winner Phil Klay, among others) -- is that they are both erudite and deeply, humanely, readable. McCann says in his Author’s Notes that all four pieces were written in reaction to “an incident t

Sins of the son visited upon a fatherand other family tribulations Laurence R. Bachmann Few author's match Colum McCann for sharp insight and searing prose. He is a writer of the first rank who creates literary jewels of characters with stories a reader want to immerse in fully. He is a writer capable of a turn of phrase that make one pause or smile and occasionally laugh out loud. McCann can write a paragraph that is simultaneously thoughtful and affecting. His characters are recognizable and moving but McCann is never devolves to sentiment. Thirteen Ways of Looking, a collection including a novella (sharin. Talk about disappointing!!!!! If I could get my money back I would! The stories weren't even developed. The book left me speechless and wondering if he missed a deadline with his publisher and so handed this drivel in to them! The disappointed was intensified by my love for Transatlantic which has managed to stay in my total recall years after having read.. Sheila D, said Compelling Read. A compelling storny, sinuously written to put you right inside the mind of an 8"Compelling Read" according to Sheila D,. A compelling storny, sinuously written to put you right inside the mind of an 82 year old widower. His early life, career, marriage - memories drift in and out. He has a difficult relationship with his son, a very self-involved man. The ending is sad, but you want to read it again, if only for the verses from the poem "1Compelling Read A compelling storny, sinuously written to put you right inside the mind of an 82 year old widower. His early life, career, marriage - memories drift in and out. He has a difficult relationship with his son, a very self-involved man. The ending is sad, but you want to read it again, if only for the verses from the poem "13 Ways of Looking At A Blackbird" that form the chapter headings.. Ways of Looking At A Blackbird" that form the chapter headings.. year old widower. His early life, career, marriage - memories drift in and out. He has a difficult relationship with his son, a very self-involved man. The ending is sad, but you want to read it again, if only for the verses from the poem "1Compelling Read A compelling storny, sinuously written to put you right inside the mind of an 82 year old widower. His early life, career, marriage - memories drift in and out. He has a difficult relationship with his son, a very self-involved man. The ending is sad, but you want to read it again, if only for the verses from the poem "13 Ways of Looking At A Blackbird" that form the chapter headings.. Ways of Looking At A Blackbird" that form the chapter headings.

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