{"product_id":"so-late-in-the-day-stories-of-women-and-men","title":"So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSo Late in the Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Story Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Barnes \u0026amp; Noble, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBloomberg\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOprah Dail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Short-Story Collection of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Most Anticipated Book of Fall from \u003ci\u003eTIME, Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (UK) and \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Amazon Best Book of November and \u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Dua Lipa Service95 Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nothing short of a masterpiece.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I did not think realism could be truly feminist until I saw Keegan wield its techniques . . . When realism is more revelatory of the world than reality itself, what can you do but feel grateful for Keegan's mastery of it?\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Atlantic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The arrival of Keegan's newest book, \"So Late in the Day,\" offers further confirmation of her spellbinding powers: the unpretentious language that feels forged in a hearth, the evocation of a pastoral but repressive Ireland, the characters whose predicaments remain lodged in your consciousness far longer than the epic battles of 1,000-page sagas.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Across her oeuvre, Keegan illuminates violence better than almost anyone, avoiding easy didacticism. She pulls apart the strands of misogyny in individuals and institutions, diagnosing the same problem in both . . . Throughout her career, Keegan seems to emphasize that we take nothing with us and that all that matters is what we give each other.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Each story is as substantive as a novel, and as breathtaking.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction Books of 2023\" Selection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In spare and exact strokes, Keegan transforms these domestic circumstances into universal mirrors. Easy to devour in a single sitting but likely to haunt you for years.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, A Best Short-Story Collection of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A trio of brilliantly polished stories . . . In Keegan's expert hands, even a minor skirmish--between a pushy older man and the writer who grudgingly lets him interrupt her solitude at an artist's residency--illuminates how the sexes so often seem to navigate the world on completely different operating systems.\"\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The sharp observations and memories of Keegan's characters reach back into the inheritance and perpetuation of misogyny as well as the objectification of women, but is done so masterfully, naturally, and imaginatively that you may not even realize that these ideas drive the stories until the second read. \u003ci\u003eSo Late in the Day\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and necessary collection for not only this day and age, but any.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, A Best Short Story Collection of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A master class in precisely crafted short fiction... Keegan's trenchant observations explode like bombshells, bringing menace and retribution to tales of romance delayed, denied, and even deadly.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Compact but deep explorations of human vulnerability from a master of the form.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisite . . . These pristine stories demonstrate the author's genius for economy. Keegan says in a paragraph what other writers take entire novels to reveal.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Irish-born Claire Keegan is like succumbing to a drug: eerie, hallucinogenic, time-stopping. Her simplest sentences envelop the brain (and all the senses) in a deep, fully dimensional dream . . . Each story is as substantive as a novel, and as breathtaking . . . Unforgettable.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction Books of 2023\" Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan crafts intimate moral tales that resonate across centuries of Irish oppression. Like Rooney and Nolan, Keegan confronts the perils of womanhood in a country historically besmirched by machismo . . . In Keegan's fiction, the historical becomes personal, the past always pressing down on the present, and women have the final say.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Impressive . . . Keegan's thrifty prose again yields concise, substantive, and spellbinding storytelling.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Tight, potent . . . [Keegan] has chosen her details carefully. Everything means something . . . Her details are so natural that readers might not immediately understand their significance. The stories grow richer with each read . . . [These stories] have new and powerful things to say about the ever-mystifying, ever-colliding worlds of contemporary Irish women and the men who stand in their way.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan is the kind of writer whose spare, slippery work you want to reread . . . [her] sentences shape shift the second time 'round, twisting themselves into a more emotionally complicated story.\" --\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Keegan] creates vivid characters who shed light not only on the complexity of gender issues but also on the hopes and despair of being human.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloomberg\u003c\/i\u003e, A Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Each story in \u003ci\u003eSo Late in the Day\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A masterclass in brevity and narrative precision . . . Keegan's fiction is full of understated knowledge, restraint and subtext . . . Every sentence, every dialogue is layered and pregnant with meaning . . . \u003ci\u003eSo Late in the Day\u003c\/i\u003e is proof that in the hands of a deft, masterful writer like Keegan, a short story, or a novella, can convey more and be more richly rewarding than many contemporary brick-size novels.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Keegan's] slim volumes of fiction . . . are like master classes in how to say more with less.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookreporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Keegan] is a superb stylist: every well-structured paragraph contains multitudes... Incredibly engrossing... She constructs her stories from a skeleton of inferences that rise, gloriously, to form complex urges, crimes, desires, rebellions and, crucially, universal truths. Each brief work is worth the wait: Keegan is something special.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A mini-masterpiece . . . There is nothing demonstrative about this prose, which is not spare but restrained, strategically discharging touches of eloquence only when needed, and not through a profusion of descriptive detail, but through choice adjectives and verbs that \u003ci\u003ejust\u003c\/i\u003e stray from the literal . . . Keegan stands almost without rival.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Claire Keegan is known for Tardis-like narratives that are bigger on the inside . . . \u003ci\u003eSo Late in the Day\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates misogyny across Irish society.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Claire Keegan is the queen of the miniaturists.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e(UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Stunning.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Keegan's] observations make ordinary days effulge with magic.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookBrowse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Keegan] is an expert on the territory that spreads between hope and despair.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePost and Courier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisite.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Astonishing... perfect.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrima\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The stories' premises evoke classic Hollywood--the end of an affair, a chance encounter, a passionate weekend--but Keegan twists expectations in ways that not even Cary Grant could unravel.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChapter 16\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Claire Keegan's beautiful new novella, \u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e, is no less likely to move you than any heaping 400-page tome you'll read this year... Keegan's novella is a master class in child narration. The voice resists the default precociousness, and walks the perfect balance between naïveté and acute emotional intelligence... Like a great, long Ishiguro novel, Keegan makes us complicit in what her characters want, setting us up for utter heartbreak when they don't get it.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan's work takes me back to when I first experienced the palpable thrill of entering an author's world. Her sentences are so artfully honed but so free of artifice they feel as rough and verdant as sprigs of fresh heather...I don't want to say anything more about \u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e, except 'Read it.'\" --\u003cb\u003eRon Charles, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan's output is scarce and her stories are as spare as they are heartrending, whittled down to the essential. If she has published anything that isn't perfect, I haven't seen it... More than most books four times its size, \u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e does several of the things we ask of great literature: It expands our world, diverting our attention outward, and it opens up our hearts and minds. This is a small book with a miraculously outsized impact.\" --\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Enchanting... a study of familial heartache and generosity.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The austere style and measured pacing of \"Foster\" is perfect... [A] matchless novella.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For all her earlier accolades, \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e, Keegan's first novel, enters the world this month with the shocking force of a debut...Over what would amount to a couple of chapters in another novel, Keegan manages to place her characters and her readers at the center of an essential human dilemma: Will we turn a blind eye to evil in our midst, or will we take some action against it, even if it consists of just one small thing? As Keegan's concise, capacious new book demonstrates, little acts can lead to real change.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keegan's precisely considered details about character, setting, memory, and dramatic moment create a story you will want to read again and again. Her deceptively simple language is pitch-perfect.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This exquisite miniature of a novel somehow defies the gravitational pull of its grim subject to hover in a quotidian, luminous present. Details materialize with preternatural clarity. The milky light of a winter afternoon, mist on a river, a woman opening an oven door, a child taking her father's hand: We see these things and feel their lingering presence as we are drawn into the life of an unassuming man in an unremarkable place.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Claire Keegan...now gives us her best work yet. \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e is a short, wrenching, thoroughly brilliant novel mapping the path of one man's conscience, its torment and vacillation between two courses of action. Either one bears a price...Spare and potent, this is a remarkable story.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sparse, breathtaking perfect gem of a novel.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e is a hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time. Claire Keegan's sentences make my heart pound and my knees buckle and I will always read everything she writes.\"--\u003cb\u003eLily King, author of \u003ci\u003eWriters \u0026amp; Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book that makes you excited to discover everything its author has ever written... Absolutely beautiful.\"--\u003cb\u003eDouglas Stuart, author of \u003ci\u003eShuggie Bain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Marvellous--exact and icy and loving all at once.\"--\u003cb\u003eSarah Moss, author of \u003ci\u003eGhost Wall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWalk the Blue Fields\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Perfect short stories . . . flawless structure . . . What makes this collection a particular joy is the run and pleasure of the language.\" --\u003cb\u003eAnne Enright, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The best stories here are so textured and moving, so universal but utterly distinctive, that it's easy to imagine readers savoring them many years from now.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] stunning second collection . . . Keegan's stories are the literary counterparts to Picasso's Blue Period paintings. . . . Keegan's first collection, \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e, led to comparisons with Raymond Carver, but Annie Proulx, with her distilled, poetic prose and attunement to remote landscapes, is a closer match.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These short fictions by the Irish author Claire Keegan haven't a style so much as a microclimate, a chill mist blowing in on a hard wind off the sea. . . . The author's own storytelling powers have darkened and matured since her first collection, as she takes confident command of her craft.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hope lurks somewhere in almost all [Keegan's] stories. . . . You start out on the paths of these simple, rural lives, and not long into each, some bit of rage or unforgivable transgression bubbles up . . . Then the truly amazing happens: Life goes on, limps along, heads for some new chance at beauty.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These stories are pure magic. They add, using grace, intelligence and an extraordinary ear for rhythm, to the distinguished tradition of the Irish short story. They deal with Ireland now, but have a sort of timeless edge to them, making Claire Keegan both an original and a canonical presence in Irish fiction.\" --\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín, author of \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"That Keegan has a knack for story-telling is proved many times over, in stories that reject the parable approach for a more informal, intimate style. . . . Her ear seems to tune in to the rhythms of life with enviably direct phrasing.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reading these stories is like coming upon work by Ann Beattie or Raymond Carver at the start of their careers.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e is an appropriate title from these spare and chilly stories by the up-and-coming Irish writer Claire Keegan. . . . Keegan [is] an authentic talent with a gimlet eye and a distinctive voice.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work. In \"So Late in the Day,\" Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently; in \"The Long and Painful Death\" a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Bèoll for a two-week writing residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his criticisms and opinions; and in \"Antarctica\" a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger.' Each story probes the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence.\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClaire Keegan\u003c\/b\u003e's works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into thirty languages. \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. \u003ci\u003eWalk the Blue Fields\u003c\/i\u003e won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. \u003ci\u003eFoster\u003c\/i\u003e won the Davy Byrnes Award -- the world's richest prize for a short story. \u003ci\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Dua Lipa Service95 Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of \"pitch perfect\" (\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cem\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/em\u003e, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered \"among the form's most masterful practitioners\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e), Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSo Late in the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in \u003ci\u003eThe Long and Painful Death\u003c\/i\u003e, a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and opinions; and in \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e, a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach story probes the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence. Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with readers long after the book is closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/span\u003e 07\/01\/2023 pg. 5 (EAN 9780802160850, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 08\/28\/2023 (EAN 9780802160850, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 09\/15\/2023 (EAN 9780802160850, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 09\/15\/2023 pg. 16 (EAN 9780802160850, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496154530070,"sku":"9780802160850","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780802160850.jpg?v=1783054255","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/so-late-in-the-day-stories-of-women-and-men","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}