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Fishing the Sloe-Black River

From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin

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Fishing the Sloe-Black River

By: Colum McCann
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Bloomsbury presents Fishing the Sloe-Black River written and read by Colum McCann.

‘A gifted and determined stylist, Colum McCann seems to have taken a vow never to write a dull line’ New York Times Book Review

'Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann' Irish Sunday Independent
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An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one.

These are eloquent tales of exile and displacement, of characters always in search of a way back home or of a way to leave it. Mischievous, assured and versatile, Colum McCann's collection of short stories marks him out as one of our best contemporary writers.©1993 Colum McCann (P)2021 Penguin Random House LLC Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Short Stories
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Critic reviews

Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann
A mesmeric find
His stories are the work of a most vivid imagination, perpetually finding new shapes and ways of examining the world
Rich, powerful stories that place McCann at the front ranks of contemporary Irish writers
Beautiful … These well-made stories, written with fierce beauty, are sure of their effect and power
There is magic in this McCann, and he brings to each page a special sorcery with the voices he conjures … No one can read through and not emerge feeling changed, somehow ennobled by it
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