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008 950510r1995 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 95019931
020 $a0805041044 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)32549209
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm32549209
035 $9ALB1876CU
035 $a(NNC)1709264
035 $a1709264
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrLoB
050 00 $aPR6063.C335$bS66 1995
082 00 $a823/.914$220
100 1 $aMcCann, Colum,$d1965-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95046994
245 10 $aSongdogs :$ba novel /$cColum McCann.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books,$c1995.
300 $a212 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aFor years, Conor Lyons has searched in vain for his mother. Now, at the age of twenty-three, he returns to his native Ireland, to find his dying father fishing obsessively in the polluted waters of a local stream.
520 8 $aDriven to continue his search by tantalizingly incomplete family stories, Conor begins to plumb the mystery of his parents' lives.
520 8 $aWith 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.
520 8 $aAs 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.
852 00 $bglx$hPR6063.C335$iS66 1995