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Antarctica: ‘A Genuine Once-In-A-Generation Writer.’ The Times

By (author) Claire Keegan

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The debut collection of stories from the author of Foster and Small Things Like These.

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SKU: 9780571382217

3 in stock

ISBN: 9780571382217

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 224

Dimensions: 12.9 × 1.5 × 19.8 cm

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Description

This is the stunning debut short story collection from the author of Small Things Like These and Foster. Originally published in 1999, these fifteen stories are set across rural Ireland and the United States, exploring the quieter, often darker corners of human longing and family life. The title story, “Antarctica,” famously follows a happily married woman who travels to the city to see what it’s like to sleep with a stranger, only for the adventure to take a chilling and unexpected turn.

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  • Paperback / softback | 224 pages
  • 12.9 × 1.5 × 19.8 cm | 249
  • 02 November 2023
  • Faber & Faber
  • United Kingdom
  • Main

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About the author

Claire Keegan

4 Published Books

Claire Keegan's stories are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, and was last year chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty- first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

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