Songdogs

Colum McCann creates in Songdogs a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.

With unreliable memories and scraps of photographs as his only clues, Conor Lyons follows in the tracks of his father, a rootless photographer, as he moved from war-torn Spain, 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. The narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine to astonishing effect.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/15/1996
ISBN: 9780312147419
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New York Times 12/22/1996 pg. 20