Showing results for "Claire Keegan" in Literary Fiction

From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws listeners into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off to keep a date nine years in the waiting. Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife. Throughout the collection, Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences.

Claire Keegan continues her outstanding work with this new collection of quietly wrenching stories of despair and desire in modern-day Ireland. A writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll's old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder whose ulterior motives emerge as the night progresses. A priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage—and battles his memories of a love affair that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life. And a man seeks solace at the bottom of a bottle as he mourns both his empty life and his lost love.

In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest.

En cette fin d'année 1985 à New Ross, Bill Furlong, le marchand de bois et charbon, a fort à faire. Aujourd'hui à la tête de sa petite entreprise et père de famille, il a tracé seul sa route : élevé dans la maison où sa mère, enceinte à quinze ans, était domestique, il a eu plus de chance que d'autres enfants nés sans père. Trois jours avant Noël, il va livrer le couvent voisin.

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.

Dans la campagne irlandaise, une fillette est confiée pour quelque temps à un couple sans enfants. Livrée à elle-même, l'enfant pénètre jour après jour un monde étranger, où elle découvre l'innocence et la tendresse de l'été. Peu à peu, des liens se tissent, chacun apprivoise l'autre et les ombres secrètes de sa lumière. Pourtant, certains détails intriguent la fillette...