Now We Can Talk Openly About Men

 

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Online sinds
27 juli 2018
EAN
9781784105785
Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
88 pagina's

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Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for laudanum. Babe is a stenographer who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary. Through their separate, overlapping stories, Evans colours an era and a culture seldom voiced in verse. Set back some years from their stories, both women find a strand of humour in what took place, even as they recall the passion, vertigo and terror of those times. A dream-like compulsion in their voices adds a sense of retrospective inevitability. The use of intense, almost psychedelic colour in the first half of the book opposes the flattened, monochrome language of the second half. This is a work of vivid contrasts, of age and youth, women and men, the Irish and the English: complementary stories of balance, imbalance, and transition.

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Artikelnummer
4773078
Online sinds
27 juli 2018
EAN
9781784105785

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Taal
Engels
Bindwijze
Paperback
Aantal pagina's
88 pagina's

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Verschijningsdatum
mei 2018