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The compassionate witty and unsettling short stories collected here announced Claire Keegan as one of Irelands most exciting and versatile new talents and earned comparison to the works of Joyce Carol Oates Alison Lurie Raymond Carver and others From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mindto sleep with another manAntarctica draws listeners into a world of obsession betrayal and fragile relationships
In Love in the Tall Grass Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date with her lover that has been nine years in the waiting In Passport Soup Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his nineyearold daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife who has gone mad with grief Throughout the collection Keegans characters inhabit a world where dreams memory and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 and recipient of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature the William Trevor Prize Antarctica is a rare and arresting debut
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