So late in the day : stories of women and men
Call Number
- FICTION KEEG (CEN, EAS, OSH)
Edition
First edition ; First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Physical Description
119 pages ; 20 cm
Summary
"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories 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 acted differently; in 'The Long and Painful Death' a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a two-week writing residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his criticisms and opinions; and in 'Antarctica' a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger. Each story probes the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence"--
Contents
- So late in the day
- The Long and painful death
- Antarctica.