Genre Fiction
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Foster
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.
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.
Editorial Reviews
Praise for Foster"Balancing Keegan's delicate, sparing prose and masterful ear for dialogue with a tale that is almost overwhelming in its tenderness, Foster is a heart-wrenching treasure of a book that only serves to confirm Keegan's place as one of contemporary Irish literature's leading lights." - Vogue, The Best Books to Read this Fall
"Pristine… Both concise and gut-wrenching. [Keegan's] superficially simple prose persuasively conveys a child's sometimes-innocent but always careful and insightful observations of the world…A heartbreaking but deeply humane story about parents and children." - Kirkus, starred review
"A gem of a book, to be savored again and again." - Booklist, starred review
"Foster confirms Claire Keegan's talent. She creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion." - Hilary Mantel
"As good as Chekhov." - David Mitchell
"An exquisitely balanced book about a child sent to stay with relatives for the summer. Keegan is a devastatingly economic writer: all the silent spaces of the novel will break your heart." - Maggie O'Farrell
"Foster puts on display an imposing array of formal beauties at the service of a deep and profound talent… She brings a thrilling synesthetic instinct for the unexpected right word, and exhibits patient attention to life's vast consequence and finality… a high-wire act of uncommon narrative virtuosity." - Richard Ford
"A thing of finely honed beauty and cumulative power, a story that deals in suggestion, exactitude and telling detail." - Observer
"It has beauty, harshness, menace, and the spine of steel worthy of high art . . . Keegan is a realist who has mastered describing the chaos of feeling." - Irish Times
"A masterly combination of things pregnant and poised, frozen and in flux." ―
"Pristine… Both concise and gut-wrenching. [Keegan's] superficially simple prose persuasively conveys a child's sometimes-innocent but always careful and insightful observations of the world…A heartbreaking but deeply humane story about parents and children." - Kirkus, starred review
"A gem of a book, to be savored again and again." - Booklist, starred review
"Foster confirms Claire Keegan's talent. She creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion." - Hilary Mantel
"As good as Chekhov." - David Mitchell
"An exquisitely balanced book about a child sent to stay with relatives for the summer. Keegan is a devastatingly economic writer: all the silent spaces of the novel will break your heart." - Maggie O'Farrell
"Foster puts on display an imposing array of formal beauties at the service of a deep and profound talent… She brings a thrilling synesthetic instinct for the unexpected right word, and exhibits patient attention to life's vast consequence and finality… a high-wire act of uncommon narrative virtuosity." - Richard Ford
"A thing of finely honed beauty and cumulative power, a story that deals in suggestion, exactitude and telling detail." - Observer
"It has beauty, harshness, menace, and the spine of steel worthy of high art . . . Keegan is a realist who has mastered describing the chaos of feeling." - Irish Times
"A masterly combination of things pregnant and poised, frozen and in flux." ―
