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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Request in advance | PR6061.E329 W35 2007 | Off-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