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by Claire Keegan

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Reviewers widely praised Claire Keegan’s finely honed prose and her incisive, compact examination of misogyny through a flawed male narrator. Many admired the subtle accumulation of small slights and self-justifications, calling the piece powerful, emotionally sharp, and unsettling. Some found moments uncomfortably relatable. However, a minority felt the ending or final story didn’t land and described the reading experience as bleak or disturbing, leaving a few hesitant to recommend despite broad respect for the craft.

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A Dua Lipa Service95 Book Club Pick

From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men.

Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered "among the form's most masterful practitioners" (New York Times), Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, 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 behaved differently; in The Long and Painful Death, a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Bll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence 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. Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with readers long after the book is closed.

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  • Title So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men
  • Author Claire Keegan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press
  • Publication date 2023-11-14
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780802160850 / 0802160859
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.3 x 4.9 x 0.8 in (18.54 x 12.45 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Ireland
    • Ethnic Orientation: Irish
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Men, Women
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023029126
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

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  • Booklist, 09/15/2023, Page 16
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 07/01/2023, Page 5
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/28/2023, Page 0

About the author

Claire Keegan's works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award -- the world's richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023.

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