Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Fishing for Amber, by the acclaimed Irish poet Ciaran Carson, dazzles with the sheer pleasure taken in the telling of stories. In form it is a kind of magic alphabet, with the subjects drawn from chillingly comic Irish fairy tales, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and from the history of the Dutch Golden Age. A mystical tour de force that conveys the beauty of language, it is destined to become a modern literary classic.