Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

by McCann, Colum
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ISBN: 9780312423384
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Overview

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.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: McCann, Colum
  • ISBN: 9780312423384
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 208
  • Publication Year: 2004
Language: English

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