Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Orwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann * Irish Sunday Independent *
A mesmeric find * Observer *
His stories are the work of a most vivid imagination, perpetually finding new shapes and ways of examining the world * Sunday Tribune *
Rich, powerful stories that place McCann at the front ranks of contemporary Irish writers * San Francisco Chronicle *
Beautiful … These well-made stories, written with fierce beauty, are sure of their effect and power * Washington Post Book World *
There is magic in this McCann, and he brings to each page a special sorcery with the voices he conjures … No one can read through and not emerge feeling changed, somehow ennobled by it * Baltimore Sun *