Walk the Blue Fields: Stories
by:
Claire Keegan (author)
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...
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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 Böll’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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802170491 (0802170498)
ASIN: 0802170498
Publish date: 2008-06-28
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Pages no: 168
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Anthologies,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Collections,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Short Stories,
Short Story Collection,
Fiction
When this story collection opened with a story in the second person, I was immediately both intrigued and concerned. It takes a lot to pull off such a uniquely styled story, but the slowly unfolding plot and gradually darkening tale hooked me from the very beginning and never let go. The first story...
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