![]() "Foster," in fact, ends on just such a petrified moment. Then again, Keegan is a writer who revels in the suspense of the unspoken, the held breath. It's a classy hardback that's oddly bulked out at its end by the first two chapters of "Small Things Like These," the kind of teaser that's usually attached to the end of paperback thrillers. Now, at last, Grove Press has published a standalone edition of "Foster" here. It's already been canonized as one of the top 50 novels of the 21st century by the Times of London. "Foster" first appeared as a long short story in 2010 in The New Yorker, and then was published in Great Britain. So far, the only thing lengthy about Keegan's work is how long it's taken for "Foster," her first novella to be published in book form in the United States. Keegan's 2020 novella, for instance, called "Small Things Like These," was shortlisted for the Booker Prize at 116 pages, the slimmest work of fiction ever to be nominated. But the accolades for her writing far outweigh its sparsity. Since 1999, when her first short story collection "Antarctica" appeared, Keegan has published only one subsequent story collection and two novellas. ![]() MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: In terms of productivity, the Irish writer Claire Keegan is the anti-Joyce Carol Oates. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says the long wait for "Foster" to be available in book form in the U.S. ![]() ![]() "Foster" is a 2010 novella by Irish writer Claire Keegan with an unusual publishing history. ![]()
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