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Maureen Corrigan reviewed the newly published short story collection, noting it contained three tales that examined troubled relationships between women and men and highlighted its reversechronological structure.
Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says the only flaw she sees with Keegan's work is that there isn't enough of it. Here's her review of So Late in the Day, a newly published collection of three of Keeg...
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Maureen Corrigan reviewed the newly published short story collection, noting it contained three tales that examined troubled relationships between women and men and highlighted its reversechronological structure.
Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says the only flaw she sees with Keegan's work is that there isn't enough of it. Here's her review of So Late in the Day, a newly published collection of three of Keegan's short stories.
Claire Keegan's newly published short story collection, So Late in the Day, contains three tales that testify to the screwed up relations between women and men.
To give you a hint about Keegan's views on who's to blame for that situation, be aware that when the title story was published in France earlier this year, it was called Misogyny.
The three short stories in So Late in the Day appear in reverse chronological order, so that the last story, Antarctica, is the oldest, first published in 1999.
In contrast, the central story of this collection, called The Long and Painful Death, which was originally published in 2007, is a pensive masterpiece about male anger towards successful women and the female impulse to placate that anger.