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Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories
The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement.
There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the Irishwoman who journeys through America in search of silence and solitude. But what is found in these stories, and discovered by these characters, is the astonishing poetry and peace found in the mundane: a memory, a scent on the wind, the grace in the curve of a street. Fishing the Sloe-Black River is a work of pure augury, of the channeling and re-spoken lives of people exposed to the beauty of the everyday.Book Details
- Publisher: Metropolitan Books
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2004
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - 0002
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.60in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780312423384
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• World Literature - Ireland - 21st Century
About the Author
Colum McCann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories and two works of non-fiction. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he has been the recipient of many international honours, including the U.S National Book Award, the International Dublin Literary Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French government, election to the Irish arts academy, several European awards, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China, and an Oscar nomination. In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts. His work has been published in over 40 languages. He is the President and co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation, Narrative 4. He is the Thomas Hunter Writer in Residence in Hunter College, in New York, where he lives with his wife Allison and their family. American Mother, his most recent book written with Diane Foley, was shortlisted for Biography of the Year by the An Post Irish Book Awards. His forhtcoming novel Twist will be published in March 2025.
www.colummccann.comPraise for this book
"A gifted and determined stylist, Colum McCann seems to have taken a vow never to write a dull line." --The New York Times Book Review
"Rich, powerful stories that place McCann at the front ranks of contemporary Irish writers." --San Francisco Chronicle "Beautiful...These well-made stories, written with fierce beauty, are sure of their effect and power." --The Washington Post Book World "There is magic in this McCann, and he brings to each page a special sorcery with the voices he conjures....No one can read through and not emerge feeling changed, somehow ennobled by it." --The Baltimore Sun