Foster (Hardcover)

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Foster (Hardcover)

By Claire Keegan

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“Claire Keegan has a way of telling a story where the space between words counts as much as the words themselves. Atmospheric and moving, one finishes her novels and sits in admiration of them. Easily as good as Small Things Like These.”
— Sheryl Cotleur, Copperfield's Books, Sebastopol, CA

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I’m just in awe of this treasure of a novella, set in rural Ireland in the 80's. Clocking in at less than a hundred pages, it definitely has that "bigger on the inside" thing going on - every bit of it is perfectly crafted to break your heart. 

With too many mouths to feed at home and yet another on the way, a young girl is sent to live with relatives in the countryside. Through her quiet, matter of fact voice, we learn that she knows too much about some things, and not nearly enough of others. It's about trust, bonds, hurts hidden or dragged into the light, and how tenderness or a lack of it shapes a life. 

I'm on a mission to devour everything else by Claire Keegan.

— From Our Favorite Books of 2022

An international bestseller and one of The Times' "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 USIt 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.
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award then the world's richest prize for a story. These works have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Small Things Like These was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the finest book in any genre published in the English language. Foster is now part of the school syllabus in Ireland. This is the first publication of the original text in the USA.
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Product Details ISBN: 9780802160140
ISBN-10: 080216014X
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: November 1st, 2022
Pages: 128
Language: English