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Seeking Redemption Through Art: The Example Of Colum Mccann, Eamon Maher
Seeking Redemption Through Art: The Example Of Colum Mccann, Eamon Maher
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Colum McCann is rightly acknowledged as being one of Ireland’s most talented living novelists. The success of his most recent novel, Let the Great World Spin (2009), which won the National Book Award in America in 2009 and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2011, really cemented his reputation as a writer of substance. He is also one of the new generation of Irish novelists who possess few discernibly ‘Irish’ traits, their preoccupations being of a more global nature.