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Songdogs

From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin

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Description

'At once deep and dazzling' Edna O'Brien

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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.

As the narratives of Conor's quest and his parents' lives twine and untwine, Colum McCann creates a mesmerizing evocation of the gulf between memory and imagination, love and loss, past and present.

'Potent, astonishing, fuelled by a unique descriptive vision … One of the most lyrically accomplished conclusions to a novel I have ever read' Independent

'A vivid, beautifully measured book' Sunday Times

'McCann writes intense, gripping prose full of sharp and telling details … Songdogs is an exciting book' Times Literary Supplement

Product details

Published 26 May 2026
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781037204258
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Colum McCann

Colum McCann’s seven novels and three collections…

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