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Fantastic review of STREET ANGEL
Here's a fantastic review of STREET ANGEL, my new memoir from WLU Press.
http://www.antigonishreview.com/index...…
"....Dominic writes as Julius Caesar spoke (“I came, I saw, I conquered.”), as Dickens wrote, and as Toni Morrison writes. The style is immediate and emotive. It also makes for a fasten-your-seat-belt read."
"The first thing you need to know about Magie Dominic’s memoir, Street Angel, is that it is a poetic and circular windstorm, both humorous and disturbing. The second thing you need to know is that the tale is steeped in Newfoundland language and sensibility. Third, Newfoundland has been called “the other Ireland.” If you know these things, all else becomes clear.
The title is a part of an old Irish expression, “street angel, house devil.” This describes a person who is charming in public and abusive in private. At the heart of this life story is Dominic’s mentally ill mother, civil on the street, but violent and volatile at home. The reader will hear much of the mother’s “affliction,” which manifests as terrifying nighttime hallucinations, and in futile, repetitive measures to ward off evil. “In her own way,” writes Dominic, “street angel, house devil. She’s lonely, frightened, demanding, violent, and superstitious. And Presbyterian.” "
Street Angel by Magie Dominic. (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014, 150 pp., $22.49)
http://www.antigonishreview.com/index...…
"....Dominic writes as Julius Caesar spoke (“I came, I saw, I conquered.”), as Dickens wrote, and as Toni Morrison writes. The style is immediate and emotive. It also makes for a fasten-your-seat-belt read."
"The first thing you need to know about Magie Dominic’s memoir, Street Angel, is that it is a poetic and circular windstorm, both humorous and disturbing. The second thing you need to know is that the tale is steeped in Newfoundland language and sensibility. Third, Newfoundland has been called “the other Ireland.” If you know these things, all else becomes clear.
The title is a part of an old Irish expression, “street angel, house devil.” This describes a person who is charming in public and abusive in private. At the heart of this life story is Dominic’s mentally ill mother, civil on the street, but violent and volatile at home. The reader will hear much of the mother’s “affliction,” which manifests as terrifying nighttime hallucinations, and in futile, repetitive measures to ward off evil. “In her own way,” writes Dominic, “street angel, house devil. She’s lonely, frightened, demanding, violent, and superstitious. And Presbyterian.” "
Street Angel by Magie Dominic. (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014, 150 pp., $22.49)
