Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan is the long awaited second collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These.
A long-haired woman moves into the priest''s house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes outA 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. 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.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
192 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Faber & Faber |
Utgivningsdatum |
2008-05-01 |
ISBN |
9780571233076 |