Everything in This Country Must (Paperback)

from hemlokgang

Audiobook............Listening to Colum McCann's prose is like listening to poetry, regardless of the subject matter. He is an excellent writer! This is the first time I have read his writing in the shorter format of novella and short stories, and I think he is masterful at it. All I will say, is...

from Cariola

The novella and two stories in this slim book are set in Ireland and peripherally deal with The Troubles. Each features a teenaged protagonist hose life is somehow affected by the lingering residue of the hatred between Catholics and Protestants. In "Wood," young Sam and his mother must hide from...

from Hagelstein

A strong collection of two stories and a novella that explores how the troubles in Northern Ireland impacted the families of victims and even those who wouldn't seem to be directly affected.

from nmele

These two stories and novella astounded me. McCann manages to evoke clear cut characters and images with minimal descriptions in each of these works. All of them revolve around the Troubles, which I found especially interesting since I just read his latest novel, "Transatlantic", a short time ago...

from richardderus

Okay, so, see, there's this place called Ireland? And it's really poor? Or, well, anyway, it used to be and stuff. So anyway, this Irish guy comes here, I mean to America, and he writes about these Irish people from when it was all poor and stuff? And so these stories are, like, really really sad...