This Side Of Brightness
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A love story in 3 generations, this is also about hope and despair, and about the survival of the human spirit. On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and the air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to be suspended on a spume of water high above the river. Almost 90 years later, Treefrog, a homeless man, stumbles through the same corridor, under the twirling flakes of snow, to his makeshift home under the city.
Author: Colum McCann
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 128mm x 196mm, 210 g
Published: 1998, Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
A love story in 3 generations, this is also about hope and despair, and about the survival of the human spirit. On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and the air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to be suspended on a spume of water high above the river. Almost 90 years later, Treefrog, a homeless man, stumbles through the same corridor, under the twirling flakes of snow, to his makeshift home under the city.
This Side Of Brightness