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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."
Endpapers of the original run of books in the Everyman's Library, 1906, based on the art of William Morris's Kelmscott Press. The endpapers or end-papers of a book (also known as the endsheets ) are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet folded, with one half pasted against an inside cover (the pastedown), and the other serving as the ...
McCann was a Catholic and creationist, he authored the anti-evolution book God – or Gorilla in 1922. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The book was notable for attacking paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn . [ 12 ] McCann argued that there is no evidence for common descent and denounced the " ape -man hoax".
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]
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.
Every year in Quill there is a tradition of sorting thirteen year olds into three categories: Wanted, Necessary and Unwanted. The strong, intelligent Wanteds go to university, Necessaries go to work in the fields, and the worthless, artistic Unwanteds are sent to their graves, by being thrown into the lake of boiling oil.
An endband along the top edge of the book (as a book is standing upright) is called a headband, and one along the bottom edge is called a tailband. An endband, more so the headband, helps to resist the strain placed on the book when shelved upright with the spine facing outward, especially as it is common to pull a book out by hooking a finger ...
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."