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Taking Scarlet As A Real Colour
Conlon ( Stars in Daytime ) points out the absurdity and political implications of everyday situations in these generally radiant Irish stories."" Publishers Weekly
176 pages, Paperback
Published December 3, 1993
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January 7, 2025
At last, a collection of short stories (not my go to) which left me reading until the end and looking for more. From Beatrice, struggling to understand her obsession with a less an average entr’acte, through to Brigid’s small but fervent Pope visit protests, the reader’s total absorption is demanded. But its really with Aodheen’s meeting with the boy from Dingwell that Evelyn Conlon’s genuine, expilict rhapsodic views on sex, deception and injustice hits you in the gut.
I can’t help that one of my favourite sentences is from his wife to the poor beleaguered Brendan, ‘ Will you come home out of that’, but there are many, many more.
I can’t help that one of my favourite sentences is from his wife to the poor beleaguered Brendan, ‘ Will you come home out of that’, but there are many, many more.
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