Full name: Thirteen Ways of Looking: A Novella and Three Stories

Author: Colum McCann Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780812986587 081298658X

From the author of the award-winning novel Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic comes an eponymous novella and three stories that range fluidly across time, tenderly exploring the act of writing and the moment of creation when characters come alive on the page; the lifetime consequences that can come from a simple act; and the way our lives play across the world, marking language, image and each other. Thirteen Ways of Looking is framed by two author's notes, each dealing with the brutal attack the author suffered last year and strikes at the heart of contemporary issues at home and in Ireland, the author's birth place. Brilliant in its clarity and deftness, this collection reminds us, again, why Colum McCann is considered among the very best contemporary writers. Similar books: Tabloid Dreams by Robert Olen Butler The Coast of Good Intentions by Michael Byers Harmony of the World by Charles Baxter The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson The Afterlife by John Updike The Ragman's Daughter by Alan Sillitoe Under a Glass Bell by Anais Nin Descent of Man by T. Coraghessan Boyle Hotel of the Saints by Ursula Hegi Victory Over Japan by Ellen Gilchrist Licks of Love by John Updike Faithless by Joyce Carol Oates Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom Don't Tell Anyone by Frederick Busch The View from the Seventh Layer by Kevin Brockmeier Fishing the Sloe-Black River by Colum McCann The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez