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So Late in the Day Stories of Women and Men
From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men.
Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered "among the form's most masterful practitioners" (New York Times), Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work.
In So Late in the Day, Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in The Long and Painful Death, a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and opinions; and in Antarctica, a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger.
Each story probes the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence. Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with readers long after the book is closed.
FictionLiteraryShort Stories (single author)World LiteratureIreland21st Century
RELEASED2023
PUBLISHERGrove Atlantic
LENGTH119
LANGUAGEEN
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Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in *The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta,* and *The Paris Review.* She is also known for her novellas, two of which, *Foster* and *Small Things Like These,* have been adapted as films.
3.0
So Late in the Day Stories of Women and Men
From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men.
Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered "among the form's most masterful practitioners" (New York Times), Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work.
In So Late in the Day, Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in The Long and Painful Death, a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and opinions; and in Antarctica, a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger.
Each story probes the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence. Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with readers long after the book is closed.
FictionLiteraryShort Stories (single author)World LiteratureIreland21st Century
RELEASED2023
PUBLISHERGrove Atlantic
LENGTH119
LANGUAGEEN
Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in *The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta,* and *The Paris Review.* She is also known for her novellas, two of which, *Foster* and *Small Things Like These,* have been adapted as films.
