Fishing the Sloe-Black River Synopsis
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.
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Colum Mccann Press Reviews
Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann - Irish Sunday Independent
A mesmeric find - Observer
His stories are the work of a most vivid imagination, perpetually finding new shapes and ways of examining the world - Sunday Tribune
Rich, powerful stories that place McCann at the front ranks of contemporary Irish writers - San Francisco Chronicle
Beautiful ... These well-made stories, written with fierce beauty, are sure of their effect and power - Washington Post Book World
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 - Baltimore Sun
About Colum Mccann
Colum McCann was born in Dublin in 1965. His fiction has won numerous international awards including the Rooney Prize, the Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Award, a Pushcart Prize, and Esquire magazine's Writer of the Year award in 2003. In 2005 he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film. He was recently inducted into the Hennessy Hall of Fame in Dublin. His work has been published in twenty-six languages. He has travelled widely and is based in New York, where he lives with his wife and children.
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