He has penned six novels and three story collections, won numerous awards, and is known internationally for his literary work as well as for his involvement with charities and nonprofits. In the early 1990s McCann moved to New York, where he currently lives with his wife and three children.
He went on to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in English and history. Soon after, he found himself in Texas, where he worked as an outdoor leader on wilderness trips for at-risk youth. After an initial failed attempt to do so, however, he decided to ride his bicycle across the country in order to enliven his emotional capacities. When he was 21 he moved from Ireland to the United States, where he planned to write a novel. McCann himself became a journalist by the age of 17, quickly thereafter taking on his own newspaper column. Shortly thereafter, he dies, and Adelita is never sure if he would have continued their relationship.Ĭorrigan is the most fully developed character in the novel.Colum McCann was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1965, the son of a newspaper editor. He considers his attraction to Adelita to be a test and struggles with his decision to fall in love or reject her. Eventually, he does express his love and sleeps with his beloved.
When Corrigan joins the order of monks in Belgium, he takes the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The poverty is something he accepts naturally. The obedience is only a little challenging: he does not want to go to New York, but he does go. The chastity he sees as part of his commitment to loving God and his neighbor. When he fully gives himself to God and neighbor, there is no room for romantic love in his life. Corrigan is an Irish Catholic whose religious beliefs influence and control his life and actions. He is a Christian in the most direct way, as a follower and imitator of Jesus Christ. One way this manifests is his service to the poor both in Ireland and in New York.
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