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2022., Grove Press Call No: Fic Kee Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US. It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household-where everything is so well tended to-and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan's great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers"--
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2021., Grove Press Call No: Fic Kee Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
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-- Stories of women and men2023., Adult, Grove Press Call No: NEW Fic Kee Edition: 1st edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The three stories presented here present an "examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work.
