So late in the day : stories of women and men

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780802160850
ISBN: 0802160875
ISBN: 9780802160874
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2023.

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Formatted Contents Note:	So late in the day -- The long and painful death -- Antarctica.
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