Foster, Claire Keegan
Foster, Claire Keegan
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Foster

Author: Claire Keegan

Narrator: Aoife McMahon

Unabridged: 1 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2022


Synopsis

An international bestseller and one of the Times's "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 stand-alone 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, stand-alone 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.

About Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award-then the world's richest prize for a story-was recently selected by the Times (UK) as one of the top fifty novels to be published in the twenty-first century. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Keegan currently holds the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on December 29, 2023

we all have soulmates. mine is short literary fiction. anyone can write a long book and make you care about characters when they have hundreds of pages to do it. managing to make me love three people so much in 84 pages that i cry to say goodbye to them, when i've spent barely a magazine in their com......more

Goodreads review by Jaline on May 30, 2019

A poor Irish family, large with children, is going through a rough patch. They live near Clonegal so it is a fair long trip for her father to drive the little girl to spend some time with her relatives on the coast in Wexford. She allows her imagination to form pictures in her mind of who the Kinsel......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on July 24, 2023

"If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor." —From the song Sit Down, by James. Set in rural Ireland, this very short story is spoken in the first-person narrative by a dirt-poor tinker’s daughter whose anonymity throughout serves to emphasise her incidental existence. The girl's str......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on February 17, 2024

Foster: 1) encourage or promote the development of 2) bring up Claire Keegan can do no wrong! Foster is a short story with a bit of a slow start but left me in beautiful tears. My favorite quotes: "I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be." "Many's the man lost......more

Goodreads review by JanB on April 04, 2023

Claire Keegan writes achingly beautiful stories using few words. She trusts her readers and allows them to read between the lines to find the deeper meaning. This is the type of writing that makes me glad to be a reader. This is a novella, but one that needs to read slowly in order to read between th......more