Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

by Colum McCann

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312423381
• ISBN13: 9780312423384
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful eclectic collection

This is one of the most magnificent collections of short stories I have ever read. Disarmingly provocative and true. The final story Cathal's Lake is truly a classic in contemporary literature about Northern Ireland. A reading experience I will never forget.

Exceptional, lovingly crafted, accurate

In each of the stories, believable characters tell their stories in a manner which is a joy to read (and re-read). McCann really knows how to get the reader's emotions running high through the lovingly crafted words and painstakingly described thoughts of his characters.