Fishing the sloe-black river : stories / Colum McCann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCann, Colum, 1965-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Americans--Social life and customs.

Irish Americans.

Ireland--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Ireland.

Manners and customs.

Irish Americans--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

196 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Picador edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2004.

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. "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.

Contents:

Sisters

Breakfast for Enrique

A basket full of wallpaper

Through the field

Stolen child

Step we gaily, on we go

A word in edgewise

From many, one

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Around the bend and back again

Along the riverwall

Cathal's Lake.

Notes:

"First published in the United Kingdom by Phoenix House."

ISBN:

0312423381

9780312423384

OCLC:

54798875