Fishing the Sloe-Black River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fishing the Sloe-Black River write by Colum McCann. This book was released on 2004-02. Fishing the Sloe-Black River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twelve stories about Irish misfits by the author of Songdogs include the tale of the anorexic nun who dies in a Long Island hospital and the talkative beautician who works with corpses.
Fishing the Sloe-Black River
Fishing the Sloe-Black River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fishing the Sloe-Black River write by Colum McCann. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Fishing the Sloe-Black River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Fishing the Sloe-black River
Fishing the Sloe-black River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fishing the Sloe-black River write by Colum McCann. This book was released on 1996. Fishing the Sloe-black River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Everything in This Country Must
Everything in This Country Must - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everything in This Country Must write by Colum McCann. This book was released on 2013-06-25. Everything in This Country Must available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colum McCann's Everything in This Country Must, a writer of fierce originality and haunting lyricism, turns to the troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals the reverberations of political tragedy in the most intimate lives of men and women, parents and children. In the title story, a teenage girl must choose between allegiance to her Catholic father and gratitude to the British soldiers who have saved the family's horse. The young hero of Hunger Strike, a novella, tries to replicate the experience of his uncle, an IRA prisoner on hunger strike. And in Wood, a small boy does his part for the Protestant marches, concealing his involvement from his blind father. Writing in a new form, but with the skill and force and sparkling poetry that have brought him international acclaim, Colum McCann has delivered masterful, memorable short fiction.
This Side of Brightness
This Side of Brightness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Side of Brightness write by Colum McCann. This book was released on 2013-06-25. This Side of Brightness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City. In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Above ground, the sandhogs--black, white, Irish, Italian--keep their distance from each other until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow diggers--a bond that will bless and curse the next three generations. Years later, Treefrog, a homeless man driven below by a shameful secret, endures a punishing winter in his subway nest. In tones ranging from bleak to disturbingly funny, Treefrog recounts his strategies of survival--killing rats, scavenging for discarded soda cans, washing in the snow. Between Nathan Walker and Treefrog stretch seventy years of ill-fated loves and unintended crimes. In a triumph of plotting, the two stories fuse to form a tale of family, race, and redemption that is as bold and fabulous as New York City itself. In This Side of Brightness, Colum McCann confirms his place in the front ranks of modern writers.
