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Walk the blue fields / Claire Keegan.

Title
Walk the blue fields / Claire Keegan.
Author
Keegan, Claire
Publication
London : Faber and Faber, 2007.

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Book/TextRequest in advance PR6061.E329 W35 2007Off-site

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Description
163 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
In her second short story collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past. A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A 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. A Harvard student flies south to celebrate his birthday at his step-father's condominium by the sea. While the scent of hay drifts up from neighbouring fields, a teenage immigrant articulates the reason for her going. 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.
Subject
Ireland > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Short stories.
  • Fiction
  • Short stories
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Parting gift -- Walk the blue fields -- Dark horses -- Forester's daughter -- Close to the water's edge -- Surrender -- Night of the quicken trees.
ISBN
  • 9780571233069 (pbk.)
  • 0571233066 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007408869
OCLC
  • 84996679
  • SCSB-10821711
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library