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Walk the Blue Fields: Stories
Claire Keegan
Grove Press, Black Cat
July 2008
On Sale: June 28, 2008
192 pages
ISBN: 0802170498
EAN: 9780802170491
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
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.
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