01985cam a2200325 i 4500 1262088303 TxAuBib 230630s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023029126 9780802160850 hardcover 0802160859 hardcover (OCoLC)21234 DLC eng rda DLC TOH OCLCF UAP SO$ MWD IMT OCLCO CDX YDX JRJ JCU TxAuBib rda Keegan, Claire, author. So late in the day : stories of women and men / Claire Keegan. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023. ©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 B♭ll 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. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Men Fiction. Women Fiction. Short stories. short stories. Nouvelles.