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| #132585 in Books | 2003-01-01 | 2003-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.82 x5.57l,.59 | File type: PDF | 304 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Too sad but too good to put down|By DLS Jones|There is a fascination/ revulsion compulsion that affected me deeply while reading this book. I was too enraptured to put it down, but too depressed to continue at times. This story is heartbreaking. It wrenched my insides as I felt what poverty and racism can do to lives in succession. I am not surprised to learn of the sandhogs|.com |This Side of Brightness weaves historical fact with fictional truth, creating a remarkable tale of death, racism, homelessness--and yes, love--spanning four generations. Two characters dominate Colum McCann's narrative: Treefrog, a homeless man wit
This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann
At the turn of the century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the sandhogs--black, white, Irish, Italian--dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Above ground, though, the men keep their distance until a specta...
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