6/3/2023 0 Comments Transatlantic by colum mccann![]() ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. To watch a novelist assert their - and our - humanity can be magical indeed, and few novelist-magicians are as practised these days as the Irish-American writer Colum McCann. Story, plus the evolution of character, equals humanity. Connections between characters spread like mortar between the bricks of plot. One story becomes perfectly plastered onto another and another. For the reader, the seduction comes from the sensation of witnessing the flowering of life. You learn something about a character on, find that detail built upon dramatically 30 pages later, behold their surprising connection to another character mid-book and are swept into the breadth of their daughter’s life even further on. When delivered with ease and conviction, the reader has the impression of attending a birth. Another is the genius of the accumulation of story. ![]() The richness of human voice - the sense that a character on the page is holding your hand, whispering into your ear or bawling out their hilarity or horror as their world view comes into focus - can be one of the novel’s greatest gifts. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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