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Thirteen Ways of Looking

Name: Thirteen Ways of Looking
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ISBN: 9780812996739

McCann, Colum

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In such acclaimed novels as Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, National Book Award--winning author Colum McCann has transfixed readers with his precision, tenderness, and authority. Now, in his first collection of short fiction in more than a decade, McCann charts the territory of chance, and the profound and intimate consequences of even our smallest moments. "As it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing." In the exuberant title novella, a retired judge reflects on his life's work, unaware as he goes about his daily routines that this particular morning will be his last. In "Sh'khol," a mother spending Christmas alone with her son confronts the unthinkable when he disappears while swimming off the coast near their home in Ireland. In "Treaty," an elderly nun catches a snippet of a news report...

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2022

Publisher:

Random House Publishing Group

Language:

English

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0812996739

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9780812996739