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This side of brightness
McCann, Colum, 1965-2026
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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. In the dark bowels of the riverbed, the workers - Black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together. But above ground, the men keep their distance - until a dramatic accident on a bitter winter's day welds a bond between Walker and his fellow workers that will both bless and curse three generations. Almost ninety years later, Treefrog stumbles on the same tunnels and sets about creating a home amongst the drug addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes and petty criminals that comprise the forgotten homeless community.
Main title:
This side of brightness / Colum McCann.
Author:
McCann, Colum, 1965-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026.
Collation:
242 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Phoenix House, 1998.
ISBN:
9781037204289 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
9088855