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| | | | | When I look back over the last three months, Claire Keegan's beautiful novella Small Things Like These stands out as one of my favourite recent reads. Set in a small town in County Wexford in the run-up to Christmas 1985, the book tells the story of Bill Furlong, a thoroughly decent, hardworking man who stays... | |
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| | | | | Small Things Like These By Claire Keegan Grove Press, #9780802158741, November 2021, 128 pp. The Short of It: Brief, but powerful. The Rest of It: "It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one... | |
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| | | | | 3.5/5? | If you like a short atmospheric book that explores moral dilemma amidst complacency of the majority, and what it means to hold on to your values - Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These might be for you. | |
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| | | The story so far: The Book of the New Sun and its coda, The Urth of the Long Sun, constitute an enduring science fiction/fantasy classic for the ages. If Gene Wolfe stopped there, he'd still be a legendary author. He didn't, however - and from time to time in his later career he'd go back... | ||