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    Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with the short story of the same name. A triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, misogyny, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men. Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, 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.In ?So Late in the Day,? 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 ?The Long and Painful Death,? a writer?s arrival at the seaside home of Heinrich B?ll for a residency is disrupted by an academic who imposes his presence and opinions.And in ?Antarctica,? 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.? Each story probes the