Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories

By Colum McCann

Book Overview

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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805041060
• ISBN13: 9780805041064
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful eclectic collection

This is one of the most magnificent collections of short stories I have ever read. Disarmingly provocative and true. The final story Cathal's Lake is truly a classic in contemporary literature about Northern Ireland. A reading experience I will never forget.

Exceptional, lovingly crafted, accurate

In each of the stories, believable characters tell their stories in a manner which is a joy to read (and re-read). McCann really knows how to get the reader's emotions running high through the lovingly crafted words and painstakingly described thoughts of his characters.