So Late in the Day

So Late in the Day

Hardcover
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Beschreibung

A Dua Lipa Service95 Book Club PickFrom Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author of "pitch perfect" (Boston Globe) Small Things Like These, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men.Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered "among the form's most masterful practitioners" (New York Times), Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, 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 behaved differently; in The Long and Painful Death, a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence 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. Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with readers long after the book is closed.

Buchinformationen

Haupt-Genre
Romane
Sub-Genre
N/A
Format
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
128
Preis
19.50 €

Beiträge

5
Alle
4.5

Materialism/Misogonism kills love and companionship

He had looked at her then and again saw something ugly about himself reflected back at him, in her gaze. That was the problem with women falling out of love; the veil of romance fell away from their eyes, and they looked in and could read you. (...); didn't they say that a woman in love burned your dinner and that when she no longer cared she served it up half-raw? The end of this story is something I suppose the majority of women unfortuantely might relate. The missbehaviour of a man that was taught since he could think or observe to treat women, just as they did with his mother, badly and to put himself and his ego first. To take the whole room and space. To prioritize money than the happiness it give by spending it for oneanother to have a good time. To spend 6€ on cherries and complaining about the money instead of making her happy by purchsing it and being thankful for her stoning and backing tarts...for her thinking about you and wanting to do something good for both of you...

5

Bitter. Aber kluge Frau.

5

In der Kürze alles auf den Punkt gebracht, sehr gut!

5

„She said things may now be changing, but that a good half of men your age just want us to shut up and give you what you want, that you're spoiled and turn contemptible when things don't go your way!" Was soll ich sagen. Ich mag die Texte von Claire Keegan einfach. Finde es bemerkenswert wie wenig sie schreiben und dabei doch so viel sagen kann. Wie etwa in diesem dünnen Büchlein mit gerade mal 46 nicht gerade eng bedruckten Seiten über Cathal, der einem erst jedenfalls nicht unsympathisch ist, und Sabine, die Frau, die er heiraten will. Meint sogar eine Art Anspruch darauf zu haben. Vielleicht sogar ihr einen Gefallen damit zu tun. Bis sie ihn wirklich kennenlernt und aus sehr gut nachvollziehbaren Gründen nicht mehr (heiraten) will.

5

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