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|author=Colum McCann
|title=TransAtlantic
|rating=Unreviewed4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=WeIn 1845 ex-slave, black American Frederick Douglass visits Ireland for a lecture tour about freedom and emancipation only to discover he're waiting for s not preaching to the converted after all. In 1919 Alcock and Brown climb into a rickety aircraft to fly the Atlantic and land in Limerick. In 1994 Senator George Mitchell also travels to Ireland watched by a world that's about to see a review miracle of negotiation. Meanwhile through it all Lily and her descendants are also there, not only watching history but living it on both sides of this bookthe Atlantic.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829371</amazonuk>
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