Transatlantic

Paperback edition of the novel which moves back in forth across the Atlantic from Ireland to America and Canada, and also moves through time from 1919 to 1845 to 1998. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, it uses the real-life stories of Frederick Douglass, Alcock and Brown and Senator George Mitchell. From the author of "Let The Great World Spin", which won a National Book Award.