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 50 novels to be published in the 21st century. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. In just 114 pages, the book introduces readers to Bill Furlong, a coal merchant in a small Irish. While Dickens uses his story to challenge the unequal distribution of wealth in Victorian society, his message nevertheless reinforces patriarchal values by celebrating the male-centric and materialist.
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