num_pages: 168
description: Claire Keegans brilliant debut collection Antarctica was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next much-anticipated book Walk the Blue Fields an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story The Long and Painful Death a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Blls old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and during the ceremony and the festivities that follow battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer.A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Irelands greatest talents and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart.
language: English
title: Walk the Blue Fields
publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat