Fishing the Sloe-Black River
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’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.
’A gifted and determined stylist, Colum McCann seems to have taken a vow never to write a dull line’ New York Times Book Review
Booker Prize-longlisted, New York Times-bestselling author Colum McCann is the winner of the National Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
McCann’s work has sold over a million copies worldwide and has been translated into 40 languages. He has been awarded a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China and an Oscar nomination
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
- Title: Fishing the Sloe-Black River
- Author: Colum McCann
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781526617293, 9781526617286, 1526617285, 1526617293
- Resource ID: LLS:9781526617293
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:53:10Z
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel Apeirogon was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His work has been published in forty languages and has received many international honours, including a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China and an Oscar nomination. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation, Narrative 4, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He was born in Dublin and lives in New York. colummccann.com