MCCANN, COLUM (1965)
MCCANN, COLUM (1965)
MCCANN, COLUM (1965)
Songdogs
Henry Holt & Co - Metropolitan Books, New York. 1995. First printing of first American edition. Hardcover. Red half cloth binding. With dustjacket. 212 pp. 15 x 21½ x 2¼ cm. 366 gr. ISBN-10 0805041044. ISBN-13 9780805041040. Irish author's first novel second book. Winner of the Hennessy Award and the Rooney prize. For years Conor Lyons has searched in vain for his mother. Now, at the age of twentythree, he returns to his native Ireland, to find his dying father fishing obsessively in the polluted waters of a local stream. Thus begins the first novel of a young writer destined to make his mark on the American literary scene.Driven to continue his search by tantalizingly incomplete family stories, Conor begins to plumb the mystery of his parents' lives. With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, he follows in the tracks of his father - a rootless photographer - as he moved from war-torn Spain, where he accompanied the Fascists, 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. As the narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' tragedy twine and untwine, Colum McCann creates a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.This is a rare first novel - at once exuberant, lyrical, and controlled - about our unstilled need for love and our inevitable return to the place we come from. The songdog - a Native American term for coyote - is a symbol of storytelling, and a fitting title for McCann's powerful narrative. Dustjacket not price-clipped. Very fine hardcover book in fine dustjacket.
Booknumber: 19926
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