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Walk the Blue Fields
Claire Keegan's brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story "The Long and Painful Death," a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böouml;ll's old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and, during the ceremony and the festivities that follow, battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night, he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer.
A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Ireland's greatest talents, and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart.
FictionShort Stories (single author)
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERBlack Cat
LENGTH168
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
Walk the Blue Fields
Claire Keegan's brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story "The Long and Painful Death," a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böouml;ll's old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and, during the ceremony and the festivities that follow, battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night, he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer.
A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Ireland's greatest talents, and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart.
FictionShort Stories (single author)
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERBlack Cat
LENGTH168
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.
