Antarctica

The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' George Saunders 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica , an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety. ------- Readers love Antarctica: 'This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!' '⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.' 'I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That's how much I love her writing.' ' With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.' 'The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.'

The stunning debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry 'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' George Saunders 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' Observer A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica , an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety. ------- Readers love Antarctica: 'This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!' '⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.' 'I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That's how much I love her writing.' ' With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.' 'The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.'

A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan's debut story collection. 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' OBSERVER A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica , an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety. ------- Readers love Antarctica: 'This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!' '⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.' 'I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That's how much I love her writing.' ' With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.' 'The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.'

A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan's debut story collection. 'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS 'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' OBSERVER A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica , an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety. ------- Readers love Antarctica: 'This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!' '⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.' 'I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That's how much I love her writing.' ' With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.' 'The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.'

A new edition of the now iconic fiction writer Claire Keegan's debut story collection featuring a fresh cover to tie in with her current bestselling trio: the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These , Foster , and So Late in the Day "These stories are diamonds." -- Esquire First published in 1999 and proclaimed "an impressive debut" by William Trevor, Antarctica introduced the world to Claire Keegan, whose short fiction has since captured readers worldwide and established her as "among the form's most masterful practitioners" ( New York Times ). Now with a revised titular story, this iridescent first collection of stories draws readers into a world of obsession and betrayal in Keegan's singular, commanding and award-winning prose. In "Antarctica," a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with a man other than her husband. In "Love in the Tall Grass," Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date, with her lover, that has been nine years in the waiting. In "Passport Soup," Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his young daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife who has gone mad with grief. Keegan's writing contains a clear vision of unaffected truths and boldly explores a world where dreams, memory, and chance have crippling consequences for those involved. Often dark and enveloped in a palpable atmosphere, the reader feels that something momentous is lurking within each of these carefully sculpted tales. The winner of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, Antarctica remains a dazzling and haunting debut by one of the world's best short story writers.

A new edition of the now iconic fiction writer Claire Keegan's debut story collection featuring a fresh cover to tie in with her current bestselling trio: the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These , Foster , and So Late in the Day "These stories are diamonds." -- Esquire First published in 1999 and proclaimed "an impressive debut" by William Trevor, Antarctica introduced the world to Claire Keegan, whose short fiction has since captured readers worldwide and established her as "among the form's most masterful practitioners" ( New York Times ). Now with a revised titular story, this iridescent first collection of stories draws readers into a world of obsession and betrayal in Keegan's singular, commanding and award-winning prose. In "Antarctica," a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with a man other than her husband. In "Love in the Tall Grass," Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date, with her lover, that has been nine years in the waiting. In "Passport Soup," Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his young daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife who has gone mad with grief. Keegan's writing contains a clear vision of unaffected truths and boldly explores a world where dreams, memory, and chance have crippling consequences for those involved. Often dark and enveloped in a palpable atmosphere, the reader feels that something momentous is lurking within each of these carefully sculpted tales. The winner of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, Antarctica remains a dazzling and haunting debut by one of the world's best short story writers.

There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beauty of the landscape- but none have managed to capture the whole story, until now. Gabrielle Walker, author, consultant to New Scientist and regular broadcaster with the BBC has written a book unlike any that has ever been written about the continent. Antarctica weaves all the significant threads into an intricate tapestry, made up of science, natural history, poetry, epic history, what it feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people back there again and again. It is only when all the parts come together that the underlying truths of the continent emerge. Antarctica is the most alien place on Earth, the only part of our planet where humans could never survive unaided. It is truly like walking on another planet. And yet, in its silence, its agelessness and its mysteries lie the secrets of our past, and of our future.

There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beauty of the landscape- but none have managed to capture the whole story, until now. Gabrielle Walker, author, consultant to New Scientist and regular broadcaster with the BBC has written a book unlike any that has ever been written about the continent. Antarctica weaves all the significant threads into an intricate tapestry, made up of science, natural history, poetry, epic history, what it feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people back there again and again. It is only when all the parts come together that the underlying truths of the continent emerge. Antarctica is the most alien place on Earth, the only part of our planet where humans could never survive unaided. It is truly like walking on another planet. And yet, in its silence, its agelessness and its mysteries lie the secrets of our past, and of our future.

The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel. " Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around."-- Locus It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica's resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole.

The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel. " Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around."-- Locus It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica's resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole.