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Everything in This Country Must Colum McCann

Everything in This Country Must By Colum McCann

Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann


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One powerful long story, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of this book. These are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, but the stories have an almost mythical rather than political feel about them.

Everything in This Country Must Summary

Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann

One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of Everything in this Country Must. These are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, but only in the sense that Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is about fishing - they have an almost mythical rather than a political feel. In the title story, 4 young soldiers help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in flood, unable to understand that their help will never be anything but an insult. In the novella, 'Hunger Strike', a young boy and his mother flee to Galway as the boy's uncle succumbs to a hunger strike in a Derry gaol. In 'Wood', a ten-year-old boy is asked by his mother to make poles for the marching season. These stories don't have a political purpose, they are almost three memories, three moments in time that changed the course of lives from innocence to something else.

About Colum McCann

Colum McCann was born in Dublin in 1965. He has lived in America, Japan and Ireland and has worked at a number of occupations to support his writing, including journalism for which he won a Young Journalist of the Year award in Dublin. In 1994 he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Fishing the Sloe-Black River. He lives in New York with his wife and two young children.

Additional information

GOR001786549
9781897580394
1897580398
Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
20000511
143
N/A
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