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Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow, Ireland. Her stories have won The Kilkenny Prize, The Martin Healy Prize, The Macaulay Fellowship, The William Trevor Prize and The Francis MacManus Award, among others. A former Wingate Scholar, she lives in rural Ireland.
Walk the Blue Fields: Stories
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ISBN-13:
9780802189721
- Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Publication date: 03/29/2016
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 192
- Sales rank: 159,108
- File size: 544 KB
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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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