‘McCann writes equally well about Ireland, America and Mexico, and he links past and present in a finely woven narrative: Songdogs is a vivid, beautifully measured book’ Sunday Times
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel Apeirogon was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His work has been published in forty languages and has received many international honours, including a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China and an Oscar nomination. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation, Narrative 4, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He was born in Dublin and lives in New York. colummccann.com
Colum McCann conjures a hugely inventive debut
*Observer*
McCann writes intense, gripping prose full of sharp and telling
details. He can draw a complete psychological portrait from the
most minor situations … Songdogs is an exciting book, because it
vibrates with the energy of a new writer finding his voice
*Times Literary Supplement*
A true work of art
*Sunday Tribune*
Potent, sometimes astonishing, fuelled by a unique descriptive
vision – the simplicity and power of the final two pages of
Songdogs form one of the most technically and lyrically
accomplished conclusions to a novel, debut or otherwise, I have
ever read
*Sunday Independent*
Songdogs is an event in Irish writing
*Irish Independent*
An arresting new voice from out of Ireland, at once deep and
dazzling
*Edna O’Brien*
Powerful ... wistful and gracefully shadowed ... The author has a
keen eye and ear; his language is full of sparkling poetry and
images
*New York Times Book Review*
Positively vibrates ... consistently engaging ... remarkably
beautiful
*Sunday Globe*
McCann has unusual control over his material ... McCann’s take on
the New World is fresh and often amusing, but what we remember most
is the poignancy
*Los Angeles Times Book Review*
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