From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of??pitch perfect? ( Boston Globe ) Small Things Like These, ?comes a tryptic of stories about love, lust, betrayal, misogyny, 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 B?ll 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
Author : Claire Keegan
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ISBN-10 : 126262032-so-late-in-the-day
ISBN-13 : 9780802160850