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Needlework
Deirdre Sullivan
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Description for Needlework
Paperback. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect. Num Pages: 224 pages, Black and white illustration - 1. BIC Classification: YFB; YFN; YXC; YXFD. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 132 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
A powerful and poetic novel from the multi-award-winning author of Tangleweed and Brine Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect. `Reading Needlework is similar to getting your first tattoo - it's searing, often painful, ... Read more
A powerful and poetic novel from the multi-award-winning author of Tangleweed and Brine Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect. `Reading Needlework is similar to getting your first tattoo - it's searing, often painful, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little Island
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781910411506
SKU
9781910411506
Shipping Time
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About Deirdre Sullivan
Deirdre Sullivan is from Galway and is now living in Dublin, where she works as a teacher. Her hugely acclaimed Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of feminist retellings of classic fairytales, won the Children's Books Ireland Book of the Year Award in 2018 and Young Adult Book of the Year at the Irish ... Read more
Reviews for Needlework
Material handled with all the delicacy of touch we would expect from the most talented of tattooists.
Robert Dunbar
The Irish Times
Beautiful and poetic.
Catherine Doyle
The Irish Times
A brave, necessary book that burned into my heart.
Sarah Webb
The Irish Times
So beautiful that you won't want to ... Read more
Robert Dunbar
The Irish Times
Beautiful and poetic.
Catherine Doyle
The Irish Times
A brave, necessary book that burned into my heart.
Sarah Webb
The Irish Times
So beautiful that you won't want to ... Read more