Walk the Blue Fields - 9780802170491

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.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: Walk the Blue Fields
• Lingua: English
• Autore:  Claire Keegan
• Editore: Black Cat
• Collana: Black Cat (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 28 Giugno '08
• Genere: FICTION
• Pagine: 168
• Dimensioni mm: 209 x 146 x 12
• ISBN-10: 0802170498
• EAN-13: 9780802170491