This Side of Brightness

• Auteur : Colum McCann
• • Editeur : Bloomsbury 2010
  • ISBN/ISSN : 978-1-4088-0591-6
  • Format : 242 p
  • Langues : Anglais
• • Nature du document : fiction Genre : roman
  • Résumé :

    At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. But above ground, the men keep their distance until a dramatic accident on a bitter winter's day welds a bond between Walker and his fellow workers that will both bless and curse three generations. Almost ninety years later, Treefrog stumbles on the same tunnels and sets about creating a home amongst the drug addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes and petty criminals that comprise the forgotten homeless community.

• • Index. décimale : 420 (Langue anglaise)
  • Thème de fiction : racisme/violence/pauvreté/société