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AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Exquisite so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.' GUARDIAN
Pure magic.' COLM TÓIBÍN
Lyrical, thoughtful, but with a thick, dark strain of melancholy running through.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

A long-haired woman moves into the priest''s house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone. And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair. In her long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.

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    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 01/05/2008
    ISBN13: 9780571233076, 978-0571233076
    ISBN10: 0571233074
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

    Exquisite so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.' GUARDIAN
    Pure magic.' COLM TÓIBÍN
    Lyrical, thoughtful, but with a thick, dark strain of melancholy running through.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

    A long-haired woman moves into the priest''s house and sets fire to his furniture. That Christmas, the electricity goes out. A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone. And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair. In her long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.

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