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Songdogs: A Novel
Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.
With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax. The narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine to astonishing effect.
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Songdogs: A Novel
Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.
With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax. The narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine to astonishing effect.
Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.
With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, to the barren plains of Mexico, where he met and married Conor's mother, to the American West, and finally back to Ireland, where the marriage and the story reach their heartrending climax. The narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine to astonishing effect.
Colum McCann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and two works of nonfiction. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, he has been the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award, the International Dublin Literary Prize, a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China, and an Oscar nomination. He has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, and Granta, among others, and is a member of both the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of Arts. His work has been translated into over 40 languages.
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Scott Veale
Powerful...wistful and gracefully shadowed....The author has a keen eye and ear; his language is full of sparkling poetry and images....Mr. McCann's hand is strong and sure.
Edna O'Brien
An arresting new voice from out of Ireland, at once deep and dazzling.
