Book Review: Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann
Friday May 7, 2004
Fishing the Sloe-Black River, 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.Read Michael O'Connor's review of Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann


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