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A taste of cut grass blew in, and every now and then a warm breeze played with the ivy on the ledge. When a shadow crossed, he looked out: a gulp of swallows skirmishing, high up, in camaraderie. Down on the lawns, some people were out sunbathing and there were children, and beds plump with flowers; so much of life carrying smoothly on, despite the tangle of human conflicts and the knowledge of how everything must end.From the beginning, despite the lovely, almost idyllic evocation of Dublin on
I almost felt sorry for Cathal at the end of this story…. What way will he go now? Will he recognise that for a relationship to work you need to treat women as human or will he become even more misogynist? Such a well paced story that has kept me thinking about it.
Chilling tale of blind misogyny
A fost o placere sa ascult acest short story citit chiar de autoarea sa Claire Keegan in cadrul sectiunii Fiction in numarul din 28 februarie 2022 al revistei The New Yorker. Apare aici portretul unui barbat irlandez, lentila scriitoarei fiind fixata pe interactiunea cu logodnica sa. Modul de constructie al personajelor si plasa fina de observatii si mici detalii care fac diferenta (faptul ca ii cumpara cirese si ii atrage atentia ca au costat 6 EURO) contureaza doua personaje solide, aproape re...
Ouch. That was a tough read.
Nothing more satisfying than taking ordinary, petty, misunderstandings and resentments and turning them into seismic, life-altering drama. Especially when it involves a young and attractive couple.
Something in the water in Ireland
This tiny teaser of a story captures the gendered micro-agressions as well as the social and familial conditioning that births it; all written with such clinical prose.
Wonderful new short story by Claire Keegan!*"A taste of cut grass blew in, and every now and then a warm breeze played with the ivy on the ledge. When a shadow crossed, he looked out: a gulp of swallows skirmishing, high up, in camaraderie. Down on the lawns, some people were out sunbathing and there were children, and beds plump with flowers; so much of life carrying smoothly on, despite the tangle of human conflicts and the knowledge of how everything must end."*"That was the problem with wome...
