{"product_id":"book-1lth","title":"So Late in the Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author of \"pitch perfect\" (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmall Things Like These\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, comes a triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated for her powerful short fiction, considered \"among the form's most masterful practitioners\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and an arc from Keegan's earliest to her most recent work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSo Late in the Day\u003c\/i\u003e, Cathal faces a long weekend as his mind agitates over a woman with whom he could have spent his life, had he behaved differently; in \u003ci\u003eThe Long and Painful Death\u003c\/i\u003e, a writer's arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich Böll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and opinions; and in \u003ci\u003eAntarctica\u003c\/i\u003e, a married woman travels out of town to see what it's like to sleep with another man and ends up in the grip of a possessive stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach story probes the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence. Potent, charged, and breathtakingly insightful, these three essential tales will linger with listeners long after the book's conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Highbridge Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":66931708559664,"sku":"BD1lth","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":66931708592432,"sku":"ZE1lth","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":66931708625200,"sku":"ZM1lth","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1lth","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}