Small Things like These - Wikipedia
WEBSmall Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, [ 1 ] and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize [ 2 ] and the Booker Prize . [ 3 ]
Book review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan : NPR
WEBDec 22, 2021 · In Claire Keegan's feminist take on Dickens, a boy born to an unwed teen builds a life as a coal merchant, husband, and father to five daughters,...
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan | Goodreads
WEBNov 5, 2021 · “Small Things Like These” is a novella mascaraing as a novel. Set in the mid 1980’s in a small Irish village, author Claire Keegan writes an almost passive novel highlighting Ireland’s ugly relationship with the Magdalene laundries.
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WEBNov 30, 2021 · Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family. It is 1985 in a small Irish town.
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WEBJan 1, 2022 · “Small Things Like These” by Irish writer Claire Keegan tells William Furlong’s story. The short novel, simply beautifully told, is a small window on what was then hidden but is now known as the national Irish scandal involving unwed mothers and the selling of their babies for decades.
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- Author: Claire Keegan
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WEBDec 10, 2021 · Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family. 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.
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- Author: Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
WEBSmall Things Like These is not just about Ireland, it's about the world, and it asks profound questions about complicity, about the hope and difficulty of change, and the complex nature of restitution . . . A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history.
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Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan - Google Books
WEBNov 30, 2021 · Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family. It is 1985 in a small Irish town....
Small Things Like These - Harvard Review
WEBJun 28, 2022 · At just over one hundred pages, Irish writer Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is a deceptively slim volume. On the one hand, it has the scathing social and religious indictment of a longer novel; on the other, it is a quiet and morose character study, a novella that delves into one man’s psychology and moral fiber.
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Hardcover - Barnes
WEBNov 30, 2021 · Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family. 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.