![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Compassionate, witty and unsettling, Antarctica is a collection to be savoured. ![]() Los Angeles Times Book Review Antarctica is an appropriate title from these spare and chilly stories by the up-and-coming Irish writer Claire Keegan. One of the most moving and disturbing stories in the collection, ‘Passport Soup’, features Frank Corso, who sits alone eating green tomatoes and bacon, mourning the disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter: ‘At one point in that late evening, she was there, and then she wasn’t.’ Keegan’s characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved. The New York Times Book Review Reading these stories is like coming upon work by Ann Beattie or Raymond Carver at the start of their careers. In ‘The Singing Cashier’, a local postman visits two sisters bearing fishy gifts in the hope that his favour will be returned in kind. In ‘House Calls’, Cordelia wakes on the last day ofthe twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date with her lover that has been nine years in the waiting. A Best Book of November from TIME and Washington Post Claire Keegan’s beautiful new novella, Foster, is no less likely to move you than any heaping 400-page tome you’ll read this year Keegan’s novella is a. From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These.įrom the opening story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind – to sleep with another man – Antarctica draws you into a world of obsession, betrayal and fragile relationships. A Best Book of the Year from NPR, New York Public Library, Electric Lit and PBS Newshour. ![]()
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