Everything in this country must : a novella and two stories / Colum McCann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCann, Colum, 1965-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict.

Manners and customs.

Northern Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Northern Ireland.

Social conflict--Northern Ireland--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

150 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000.

Summary:

In Everything in This Country Must, Colum McCann, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, has turned to the Troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals, as only a fiction writer can, the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and especially children. In the title story, a teenage girl must quash her feelings of gratitude and humanity toward the British soldiers who have saved her father's horse. The young hero of the novella "Hunger Strike" tries to replicate the experience of his uncle, a Catholic prisoner in the notorious H-block on hunger strike for better conditions. And in "Wood," a small boy is torn between his parents' loyalties as he does his part for the Protestant marches.

Everything in This Country Must takes on a subject rarely tackled in fiction, and seldom with such restraint and delicacy. Writing in a new form, but with the skill and poetic force that have brought him international acclaim, Colum McCann here presents a collection of masterful short fiction--the one work to read on Northern Ireland.

Contents:

Everything in This Country Must 1

Wood 19

Hunger Strike 41.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0805063986

OCLC:

42080297