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In Songdogs, his first novel, Colum McCann, who divides his time between Ireland and America, explores the tensions created by movement between such different worlds. The thematic thread in this collection of short stories is much the same--the longing to escape from, and the pull toward, a fixed and central point. Sometimes the theme is explored through travel: a survivor of Hiroshima emigrates to western Ireland, but always feels the blast of that defining moment; a young Irishwoman moves frenetically through America in search of tranquillity. Sometimes the motion is within the mind, as it is for the paralyzed cyclist who discards his bike after realizing that "the only thing it could be ridden with was a perfect cadence of the imagination."
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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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- PublisherPhoenix House
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1857992156
- ISBN 13 9781857992151
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First UK Paperback Edition/First Printi. This copy of the First UK Paperback issue of "Fishing the Sloe-Black River" has been SIGNED by Colum McCann on the title page! Winner of the 1994 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. This collection of twelve short stories, set in Ireland and America - eloquent tales of exile and displacement - introduce an outstanding new voice in Irish writing. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 7649
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