Fishing the Sloe-Black River
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- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release Date:02-06-11
- Publisher: Audible Studios
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Publisher's Summary
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.
Presented now for the first time in audio, 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.
©1996 Colum McCann (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
What the Critics Say
"Set in diverse locations ranging from urban New Orleans to rural Ireland, and encompassing the lives of a startling range of cultures and characters, this superlative collection shows an impeccable command of style and language. Highly regarded in Ireland, McCann should begin to command a wide readership here." (Publishers Weekly)
"McCann at his best can be a terrifically exhilarating writer. He seems to have taken a solemn vow never to write a dull line... [in these stories] one can feel Mr. McCann wandering the borders of his talents and interests, testing the fence posts for sway." (The New York Times Book Review)
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