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Walk the Blue Fields

Stories

Claire Keegan Aidan Kelly Aoife McMahon Aidan Quinn

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English
HighBridge Audio
12 April 2022
Claire Keegan's brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was named a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. She continues her outstanding work with this new collection of quietly wrenching stories of despair and desire in modern-day Ireland. In ""The Long and Painful Death,"" a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll's old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder whose ulterior motives emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage--and battles his memories of a love affair that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life. And in ""Dark Horses,"" a man seeks solace at the bottom of a bottle as he mourns both his empty life and his lost love. A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals struggling toward their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from ""that rarest of writers--someone I will always want to read,"" and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart (Irish Times).
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Imprint:   HighBridge Audio
Dimensions:   Height: 142mm,  Width: 148mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   136g
ISBN:   9798212056946
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award-then the world's richest prize for a story-was recently selected by the Times (UK) as one of the top fifty novels to be published in the twenty-first century. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Keegan currently holds the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Aoife Mcmahon is a narrator for audiobooks including Beautiful World, Where Are You and The Crooked Branch. Aidan Kelly is an Earphones Award-winning narrator and a Dublin and London-based actor with extensive stage, film, television, and radio experience. He has appeared as Tom in the Druid Theatre's production of The Good Father, directed by Garry Hynes for the Galway Arts Festival. He won the Irish Sunday Tribune Award for his performances in Howie the Rookie and Comedians.

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