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Aug 31, 2023 · So Late in the Day is the story of Cathal: how he lives alone, was once almost married to Sabine and how certain character flaws can destroy relationships. The picture built of Cathal erodes our sympathy from a lonely, jilted man to a person with mean tendencies, sharing issues and a lack of empathy.
Nov 14, 2023 · “Each story in So Late in the Day offers readers the suspense one might feel when walking home alone late at night. Violence lurks in Keegan’s stories, just as it does in our real world, despite it being so late in the story of women and men.”
Feb 21, 2022 · So Late in the Day. By Claire Keegan. February 21, 2022. Photograph by Enda Bowe for The New Yorker. Listen to this story. Audio: On Friday, July 29th, Dublin got the weather that had...
Nov 14, 2023 · “Each story in So Late in the Day offers readers the suspense one might feel when walking home alone late at night. Violence lurks in Keegan’s stories, just as it does in our real world, despite it being so late in the story of women and men.” — Washington Independent Review of Books
Nov 13, 2023 · Claire Keegan's newly published short story collection, So Late in the Day, contains three tales that testify to the screwed up relations between women and men. To give you a hint...
Aug 22, 2023 · In Keegan’s elegant, spare, and rich style, she tells us about Friday, July 29th, in Dublin, which is a significant day for Cathal, our protagonist. As we follow him through the day, Keegan gives us hints and foreshadowing of why that day turned out the way it did for him and his realization of his part in it…so late in the day.
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Feb 22, 2022 · So Late In The Day is a collection of three short stories by award-winning Irish author, Claire Keegan. In the title story: As he finishes work and makes his way back home from Dublin on the Arklow bus, Cathal reflects on his relationship with his French-born fiancée, Sabine.
Nov 14, 2023 · Each of Keegan’s male characters is culpable in whatever trouble they get themselves into. Her women have agency, but are shackled by the poisonous attitudes of the men they encounter. Written over a span of 20 years, these pristine stories demonstrate the author’s genius for economy.
So Late in the Day: The Sunday Times bestseller. Hardcover – 31 Aug. 2023. by Claire Keegan (Author) 4.0 1,819 ratings. See all formats and editions. An exquisite new short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster. ** An Irish Times Book of the Year **.
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Books. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men. Claire Keegan. Grove Press, Nov 14, 2023 - Fiction - 128 pages. From Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of “pitch perfect”...
