Colum McCann: Fishing the Sloe-black River

Fishing the Sloe-black River


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Stunning collection of short stories from the prize-winning author of DANCER An ageing nun is tracked to ground by her sister; a garrulous beautician must lay out the corpse of a loved one. These are eloquent tales of exile and displacement, of characters always in search of a way back home or of a way to leave it. Mischievous, assured and versatile, Colum McCann's collection of short stories marks him out as one of our best contemporary writers.

get him out. Follow their hilarious hijinks in this delightful tale of what The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity s past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days when people s bodies were susceptible to death through disease and old age. Now, they immerse themselves in virtual Fishing the Sloe-black River download book reality time machines to explore the life-to-death arc that defined existence so long ago.Jacob Brewer is a virtual reality engineer, overseeing the time machine s operation aboard the starship Aspera. But on the thousand-year voyage to Beta Hydrii, the eight-hundred member crew gets more reality than they expect when people entering the machine start to die." All the Tea in China - a Mortdecai novel by Kyril Bonfiglioli, soon to be a major film starring Johnny Depp 'One of the funniest writers ever' Uncut After committing a crime anyone but a close relative might forgive, Karli Mortdecai Van Cleef leaves Holland double-quick with his uncle's buckshot lodged firmly in the seat of his breeches. Discretion being the least-idiotic part of valour he decides to hide far away in London, among the tea shops and opium dens. On savouring these Eastern delicacies and knowing an opportunity when he sups upon one, young Karli throws in his lot with an opium clipper bound for China's high seas. Life on the ocean waves, however, is full of perils for an officer and his sensitive digestive tract: mountainous waves, an encounter with a malodorous slave ship, the captain's wife's pulse-racingly brief wardrobe, several hordes of pirates, mutiny, the ship's cook's fondness for curry - to name but a few. All the Tea in China is a swaggering, rip-snorting, buckler-swashing tale about one of the men who - for a reasonable fee - made Britain great. 'For those who have learnt to relish his elegant, nasty thrillers, Bonfiglioli is a name hard to forget.


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Author: Colum McCann
Number of Pages: 192 pages
Published Date: 06 Oct 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780753805367
Download Link: Click Here
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