About the Book: Fishing the Sloe-Black River
'A gifted and determined stylist, Colum McCann seems to have taken a vow never
to write a dull line New York Times Book ReviewOrwell
would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann Irish
Sunday Independent
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 McCanns collection of short
stories