This Side Of Brightness

by Colum McCann

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On a bitter winter's day in 1916, deep below the streets of New York, a group of men is working in one of the huge pressurized tunnels that will make up the subway system. Suddenly, a tiny hole appears in the roof of the tunnel and the air rushes in, sucking the men up through the bed of the Hudson, to be suspended on a spume of water high above the river. Almost 90 years later, Treefrog, a homeless man, stumbles through the same corridor, under the twirling flakes of snow, to his makeshift home under the city. A love story in three generations, this is also about hope and despair and survival.
  • ISBN10 075380476X
  • ISBN13 9780753804766
  • Publish Date 7 December 1998 (first published 12 January 1998)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 16 August 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 256
  • Language English