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Antarctica By: Claire Keegan
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon, Sheena May, Aidan Quinn, Sophie Roberts
Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins Claire Keegan
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I've just finished this tragic book of short stories, called Antarctica on audiobook, by Claire Keegan, Antarctica: Stories .
The title, Antarctica, comes from the first short story, which deals with travel, ...more
WE NEED AN AUDIOBOOK EDITION ADDED PLEASE. I HOPE THIS IS ENOUGH INFO TO HELP ADD IT:
Antarctica By: Claire Keegan
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon, Sheena May, Aidan Quinn, Sophie Roberts
Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins Claire Keegan
https://www.audible.com/pd/Antarctica...
I've just finished this tragic book of short stories, called Antarctica on audiobook, by Claire Keegan, Antarctica: Stories .
The title, Antarctica, comes from the first short story, which deals with travel, ...more
I really enjoyed Keegan's Booker nominated "Small Things Like These." It was about as close to perfect as I can imagine a novella to be. Her earlier short story collection "Antarctica" contains a lot of the same precision in writing, but lacks the heart of her later work. The title story (which is practically a horror story) struck me as the best and most developed of the lot, but you pretty much know how it was going to end two or three pages in ("Ballad of Lucy Jordan"). Too many of these stor
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Chilling, unsettling stories about families, relationships, betrayal, regret, and crime. I had to take a break after the first one, the titular Antarctica, because though it was brilliant and carried out perfectly, I wasn’t prepared for the ending to go the way it did. I'm glad I came back to it, this time a knowing what to expect.
One major theme that drives most of these stories is that characters often suffer an outsized, quasi-cosmic “punishment” for some relatively minor original sin they c ...more
One major theme that drives most of these stories is that characters often suffer an outsized, quasi-cosmic “punishment” for some relatively minor original sin they c ...more
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