This Side of Brightness

Colum McCann

Original title: This side of brightness

earliest edition we have, 1998 Compass Press, 1998 335 pages

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In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves the Okefenokee swamps of his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the underground tunnel that will carry trains between Brooklyn and Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed the sandhogs - black, white, Irish, Italian - dig together; above ground, though, the men keep their...

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Editions we hold

This Side of Brightness paperback · 2003 · Picador · 304 pages · 9780312421977
Der Himmel unter der Stadt edition · 2000 · Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag · 351 pages
This Side of Brightness paperback · 1999 · Owl Books · 302 pages · 9780805054538
This side of brightness edition · 1998 · Compass Press · 335 pages
This side of brightness edition · 1998 · Metropolitan Books · 292 pages

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