Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories image
ISBN-10:

0312423381

ISBN-13:

9780312423384

Author(s): McCANN, COLUM
Edition: 2nd
Released: Feb 01, 2004
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
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Description:

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.












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