Book : Foster - Keegan, Claire

-Titulo Original : Foster

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Grove Press

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Review An Amazon Best Book of November 2022:In Keegans latest novella, a girl is dropped off at a farm in rural Ireland to live indefinitely with relatives while her mother awaits the birth of her youngest child. There, young Ann experiences a level of love, care, and attention she didnt know she was missing. And, in her blooming, her foster parents begin to come to terms with events in their past. Somehow, what Keegan doesnt put on the page manages to convey as much as what she does. Between whats written and whats not breathes an exquisite, tender, and heart-expanding story, as Keegan creates more magic in 128 pages than others could do in 928 pages. -Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor An international bestseller and one of The Times’ “Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century,” Claire Keegan’s piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household-where everything is so well tended to-and this summer must soon come to an end. Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker,this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan’s great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers. Review Praise for Foster A Best Book of November from TIME and Washington Post “Claire Keegan’s beautiful new novella, Foster, is no less likely to move you than any heaping 400-page tome you’ll read this year… Keegan’s novella is a master class in child narration. The voice resists the default precociousness, and walks the perfect balance between naivete and acute emotional intelligence… Like a great, long Ishiguro novel, Keegan makes us complicit in what her characters want, setting us up for utter heartbreak when they don’t get it.” - New York Times “Keegan’s work takes me back to when I first experienced the palpable thrill of entering an author’s world. Her sentences are so artfully honed but so free of artifice they feel as rough and verdant as sprigs of fresh heather…I don’t want to say anything more about Foster, except ‘Read it.’” - Ron Charles, Washington Post Book Club “Keegans output is scarce and her stories are as spare as they are heartrending, whittled down to the essential. If she has published anything that isnt perfect, I havent seen it… More than most books four times its size, Foster does several of the things we ask of great literature: It expands our world, diverting our attention outward, and it opens up our hearts and minds. This is a small book with a miraculously outsized impact.” - NPR “Foster is exactly as sad as you imagine it would be, but more stunningly alive than you have any right to expect. Its language settles in your belly and then your bones only seconds after it has passed your eyes… Keegan’s world is lush and full, the details delicately made, ever more rewarding and engaging with every read… While the scale of her story is modest - this one small girl, this short stretch of time - the scope of what Keegan can hold inside of it - the ache of living, the flash of seeing finally what we don’t have, the mourning for all we’ll never be - is as big, brash and ambitious as a story might be.” - Los Angeles Times “Enchanting… a study of familial heartache and generosity.” - Washington Post “The austere style and measured pacing of “Foster” is perfect… [A] matchless novella.” - Wall Street Journal “Balancing Keegan’s d