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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Claire Keegan
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber, Limited, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780571382217
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Claire Keegan (born 1968) is an Irish writer known for her short stories, which have been published in *The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, Granta,* and *The Paris Review.* She is also known for her novellas, two of which, *Foster* and *Small Things Like These,* have been adapted as films.
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