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Colum McCann was born in 1964 or 1965 in Dublin. [4] His mother was from Derry in Northern Ireland, and McCann would spend summers with his family there. [5] His father, Sean McCann, was the features editor for the Dublin Evening Press and a prolific author. [6]
Reviews for the book have been generally positive. Charles Finch in The Washington Post described the book as "a loving, thoughtful, grueling novel. [ 1 ] Shoiab Alam, writing in The Daily Star , hailed the novel as "a masterful and timely literary response to [the] region's neverending horrors."
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Let the Great World Spin is a novel by Colum McCann set mainly in New York City in the United States. The book won the 2009 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction [1] and the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award, one of the most lucrative literary prizes in the world.
The book begins on the Eastern Front during World War II, with Nureyev performing for injured Soviet soldiers as a child. It covers his good fortune in gaining the chance to study ballet in his home country, his success there and then his life, work, loves and excesses as a celebrity after his defection to the West.
Michael James McCann [1] (born 1955) [2] is a Canadian author of crime fiction and supernatural fiction. His crime novel Sorrow Lake, the first March and Walker Crime Novel, is a finalist for the 2015 Hammett Prize. He is also the author of the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series and The Ghost Man, a supernatural thriller.
Reviews for the book have been generally positive. Theo Tait in The Guardian commended McCann's skill as a writer though expressed concern at the plot becoming unwieldy in light of the many themes and story strands present in the novel. [1] The Daily Express also commented favourably on the novel, in particular the novel's "lyrical and ...
He used the pen name "A. L. McCann" for his first book, The White Body of Evening, to avoid confusion with fellow Australian writer Andrew McGahan. His second fiction book, Subtopia , is a coming-of-age novel that takes place in "south-eastern suburbs in the 1970s, St Kilda in the 1980s and Berlin in the 1990s."