Songdogs

Colum McCann

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Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.

With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax. The narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine to astonishing effect.

Book Details

Publisher: Picador USA
Publish Date: Oct 15th, 1996
Pages: 224
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 0.70in - 0.50lb
EAN: 9780312147419
Categories: • Literary• Family Life - General• Psychological

About the Author

McCann, Colum: - Colum McCann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and two works of nonfiction. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he has been the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award, the International Dublin Literary Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China, and an Oscar nomination. He has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, and Granta, among others, and is a member of both the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of Arts. His work has been translated into over 40 languages.

Praise for this book

"Powerful . . . wistful and gracefully shadowed . . . The author has a keen eye and ear; his language is full of sparkling poetry and images." --Scott Veale, The New York Times Book Review

"Positively vibrates . . . consistently engaging . . . remarkably beautiful." --Peggy O'Brien, The Boston Sunday Globe

"McCann . . . has unusual control over his material . . . McCann's take on the New World is fresh and often amusing, but what we remember most is the poignancy." --Michael Harris, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An arresting new voice from out of Ireland, at once deep and dazzling." --Edna O'Brien