—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“There is no denying the discipline that has gone into Everything in This Country Must.”
—Charles Taylor, The New York Times Book Review
“McCann has the knack of capturing the intensity of these strongly held views in a low-key prose that underscores their vitriol and in a way that disturbs the reader’s sensibilities.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Masterful. These emotionally charged, beautifully controlled tales can only enhance McCann’s already considerable reputation.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“These are powerful stories—gritty, memorable, and ambitious. The novella goes straight to the heart, both in terms of its theme and its emotional punch.”
—Edna O’Brien, author of Wild Decembers
“Beautifully, poetically written … The need to read them over and over again can’t be denied.”
—Booklist
“Colum McCann’s stories are brooding, meditative, and lyrically controlled to that delicate point where the emotion within them intensifies with each succeeding reading and recognition. The political turmoil of Northern Ireland finds here an answering, subtly respondent voice—wonderfully skilled and deeply felt.”
—Seamus Deane, author of Reading in the Dark
“Further evidence of McCann’s remarkable gifts as a prose artist as well as storyteller … In each of these pieces, the miracle is how McCann, with prose so terse and spare, is able to create worlds so emotionally complex and moving.”
—Library Journal
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCann, Colum.
Everything in this country must : a novella and two stories / Colum McCann.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-27318-5
1. Northern Ireland—Social life and customs—Fiction. 2. Social conflict—Northern Ireland—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6063.C335E93 2000
823'.914—dc21
99-43614
CIP
First published in the United States by Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC
eISBN 9781466848672
First eBook edition: May 2013
Colum McCann, Everything in This Country Must
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