Colum McCann is the author of books including This Side of Brightness, Zoli, Songdogs and Let the Great World Spin. 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.
"Powerful . . . wistful and gracefully shadowed . . . The author has a keen eye and ear; his language is full of sparkling poetry and images." --Scott Veale, The New York Times Book Review "Positively vibrates . . . consistently engaging . . . remarkably beautiful." --Peggy O'Brien, The Boston 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." --Michael Harris, Los Angeles Times Book Review "An arresting new voice from out of Ireland, at once deep and dazzling." --Edna O'Brien
This first novel by a young Irish writer living in America is a sad, even grim tale of a boy's search for an explanation for the disintegration of his family. Conor Lyons goes to Ireland as a young adult and stays for a time with his father, who now lives in dreary, unkempt circumstances. He tries to discover why his Mam left the family when he was a boy. Part of the mystery seems to lie in the erotic images his father, a wandering photographer, had made of Mam when she was young. The awkward, painful understanding between father and son is the best part of the novel, which, despite almost unrelieved wretchedness, shows considerable promise. For larger collections.-Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
"Powerful . . . wistful and gracefully shadowed . . . The author has a keen eye and ear; his language is full of sparkling poetry and images." --Scott Veale, The New York Times Book Review "Positively vibrates . . . consistently engaging . . . remarkably beautiful." --Peggy O'Brien, The Boston 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." --Michael Harris, Los Angeles Times Book Review "An arresting new voice from out of Ireland, at once deep and dazzling." --Edna O'Brien
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