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Fishing the Sloe-Black River:

Stories
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Macmillan, Feb 1, 2004 - Fiction - 208 pages
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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User Review  - Jojanneke van den Bosch - Goodreads

Absolutely colourfully told stories. McCann grasps his characters and taps into their thoughts. In a recent interview, McCann has said that he has had a rather pleasant childhood. If that's true, this means that the man is a truly gifted storyteller. Read full review

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The audiobook Fishing the Sloe-Black River is a book of 12 short stories, narrated by Clodagh Bowyer, Tim Smallwood, Paul Nugent, Fiana Toibin, Sean Gormley, John Keating and Ed Malone. The Irish ...

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identity theory | the narrative thread - colum mccann
Irish-born Colum mccann is the author of two story collections—Fishing The Sloe-Black River and Everything in The Country Must—and three novels, Songdogs, ...
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International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
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New York State Writers Institute - Colum mccann
mccann's other books include the story collection, Fishing the Sloe-Black River (1993), and Everything in This Country Must: A Novella and Two Stories, ...
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I found Colum mccann’s collection, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, at a used book store. What a find! Fueled by a strong sense of place, mccann creates ...
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Cairn - The Irish Short Story (1980-2000): Ireland Anthologized
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About the author (2004)

Colum McCann is the author of  books including This Side of Brightness, Zoli, Songdogs and Let the Great World Spin. He has received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and was named the first winner of the Grace Kelly Memorial Foundation Award and the Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. He lives in New York City.

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