num_pages: 184
description: 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.Sisters --Breakfast for Enrique --A basket full of wallpaper --Through the field --Stolen child --Step we gaily, on we go --A word in edgewiseFrom many, one --Fishing the sloe-black river --Around the bend and back again --Along the riverwall --Cathal's lake
language: English
title: Fishing the Sloe Black River
titlecomplete: Fishing the Sloe Black River
genres: Fiction, Ireland, Short Stories, Irish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 583
publisher: Phoenix Paperback