Fishing the sloe-black river : stories
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New York : Picador, 2004.
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Book
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1st Picador ed.
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196 pages ; 22 cm
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Main Library - Adult
Fiction McCann, C
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Published
New York : Picador, 2004.
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Language
English

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