{"product_id":"fishing-the-sloe-black-river-stories-9780312423384","title":"Fishing the Sloe-Black River: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere 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. But what is found in these stories, and discovered by these characters, is the astonishing poetry and peace found in the mundane: a memory, a scent on the wind, the grace in the curve of a street. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFishing the Sloe-Black River \u003c\/i\u003eis a work of pure augury, of the channeling and re-spoken lives of people exposed to the beauty of the everyday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColum McCann\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of books including \u003ci\u003eThis Side of Brightness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoli\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSongdogs \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Pushcart Prize, and was named the first winner of the Grace Kelly Memorial Foundation Award and the Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50556102410514,"sku":"9780312423384","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a1b064a-e1aa-4c2c-ae62-133c8434aaab.jpg?v=1731748009","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fishing-the-sloe-black-river-stories-9780312423384","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}