Walk the Blue Fields

Walk the Blue FieldsClaire Keegan's brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern day Ireland. In the never before published story "The Long and Painful Death," a writer awarded a stay

Claire Keegan's brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story "The Long and Painful Death," a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich B ll's old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and, during the ceremony and the festivities that follow, battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night, he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer.
A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Ireland's greatest talents, and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 06/01/2008
ISBN: 9780802170491
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.52d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2008 pg. 51
Publishers Weekly 05/26/2008 pg. 38
New York Times Book Review 09/07/2008 pg. 20
New York Times Book Review 09/14/2008 pg. 26