"When you read Colum McCann's [ Everything in This Country Must ,] you'll know what it is to hear a symphony without instruments." -- The Washington Post "[McCann] shows off all his talents here.[Will] keep readers amazed and near tears." -- Publishers Weekly "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 "There is no denying the discipline that has gone into Everything in This Country Must ." -- The New York Times Book Review "Captures that peculiar nexus of hormones, deprivation and political imperative on a Northern Irish child coming of age." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "[S]tunning.
Told in McCann's lush prose, these stories are both mesmerizing and painful." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "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 "[McCann] packs more passion and heartbreak into these two stories and novella.than most writers can generate in books three times the length." -- Kirkus "Beautifully, poetically written.the need to read them over and over again can't be denied." -- Booklist "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 "Few contemporary writers are better at extracting the sublime from the base." -- The Guardian "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 "Excellent--this is a powerful and moving collection." --Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha b>--Seamus Deane, author of Reading in the Dark "Excellent--this is a powerful and moving collection." --Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha b>--Seamus Deane, author of Reading in the Dark "Excellent--this is a powerful and moving collection." --Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha b>--Seamus Deane, author of Reading in the Dark "Excellent--this is a powerful and moving collection." --Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.