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Charles is the fiction editor of the washington post. Ten years later, he has pushed the limits of kaleidoscopic with apeirogon. Based on the truelife friendship of two men whose daughters were killed in the middle east, this novel buoys the heart. Author of 4 books including moon of the crusted snow. 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. Colum mccann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with. Kamila shamsie, author of home fire from the national book awardwinning and bestselling author of let the great world spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely. Songdogs is colum mccanns first novel, it is a multilayered story and written with mccanns usual sharp writing style and eloquence of prose. Dancer by colum mccann a novel that captures the wild, glorious life of rudolf nureyev beautiful, arrogant and brilliant and the tragic country he abandoned.

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Colum mccann s 2009 novel, let the great world spin, was a kaleidoscopic tale of new yorkers in the 1970s that became an instant bestseller, won a national book award, and was named an amazon best book of the year, among many other honors. Think of reading david mitchells cloud atlas, anne carsons autobiography of red, or george saunderss lincoln in the bardo for the first time. Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and. Thirteen ways of looking by colum mccann the boston globe. Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. June 12, colum mccann will be at sidwell friends school.