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Item Details
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WALK THE BLUE FIELDS
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By: |
Claire Keegan |
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Paperback / softback |
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£7.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0802170498 |
ISBN 13: |
9780802170491 |
Publisher: |
GROVE PRESS / ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
27 August, 2008 |
Synopsis: |
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 Boll 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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US |
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
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Non-returnable |
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