02007cam a2200325 i 4500 1012926939 TxAuBib 20231117120000.0 230630s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023029126 9780802160850 HRD 20.00 0802160859 HRD 20.00 TxAuBib rda Keegan, Claire, author. So late in the day [BOOK] : stories of women and men / Claire Keegan. So late in the day : stories of women and men. First edition. New York : Grove Press, 2023. 119 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20231117. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Men Fiction. Women Fiction. Short stories.