{"product_id":"walk-the-blue-fields-stories","title":"Walk the Blue Fields: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eClaire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story “The Long and Painful Death,” a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll’s old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and, during the ceremony and the festivities that follow, battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night, he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Ireland’s greatest talents, and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Claire Keegan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47889420648701,"sku":"9780802170491","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0472\/7069\/0970\/files\/9780802170491.jpg?v=1784910949","url":"https:\/\/www.thepaintedporch.com\/products\/walk-the-blue-fields-stories","provider":"The Painted Porch Bookshop ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}