01957cam a2200337 i 4500 1040322070 TxGeo 20231103120000.0 230630s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023029126 9780802160850 hbk. 0802160859 hbk. (OCoLC)1377640445 TxGeo rda Keegan, Claire, author. So late in the day : stories of women and men / Claire Keegan. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York, NY : Grove Press, 2023. 119 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier So late in the day -- The long and painful death -- Antarctica. "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 Böll 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."-- Provided by publisher. 20231114. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Men Fiction. Women Fiction. Short stories. QS5