Walk the Blue Fields - Softcover

Keegan, Claire

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571233066 ISBN 13: 9780571233069

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2007

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A long haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half naked and realises the money is almost gone. A Harvard student flies south to celebrate his birthday at his step-father's condominium by the sea. While the scent of hay drifts up from neighbouring fields, a teenage immigrant articulates the reason for her going. And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair.

In her long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past, and it is against this landscape that the stories of Walk the Blue Fields so beautifully articulate all the yearnings of the human heart.

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Review:

'Impressive ... [Keegan] is magnificent at capturing the rapturous, brimming vigour of the present and of nature.'
-- Observer - Paperback of the Week

'Keegan ... adds the timing of her masters, McGahern and Trevor to her imaginative realist's art.' -- Irish Times

'Like Chekhov, Keegan has the ability to sum up a life, or a significant chunk of one, in apparently trivial, quotidian events.' -- Independent on Sunday

'Perfect short stories.' -- Anne Enright, Guardian

'These are exquisite stories, so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.' -- Guardian

Keegan writes with the most extraordinary grace ... This book will
surely place her where she truly belongs: among the greatest practitioners
of the short-story form now writing.
-- Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea

Book Description:

Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan is the long awaited second collection from prize-winning author of Antarctica.

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