Speaking Volumes: A Dublin Childhood
by Edith Newman Devlin
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Author: Edith Newman DevlinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-10
ISBN: 0856406724
Number of pages: 270
Publisher: Blackstaff Pr
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Book Review: Irish Childhood
Summary: 5 Stars
"In this highly original genre-defying book, the author remember her childhood in Dublin in the 1930s and 1940s as a poor Protestant living among even poorer Catholics. She tells of her strange home in the gate lodge of Jonathan Swift's hospital for the insane, and of her increasingly strained relationship with her devoted but undemonstrative father. Reading was her salvation, and in novels like Jane Eyre, Hard Times and Anna Karenina she found her own inarticulate experience better understood and better expressed. Pithy, illuminating commentaries on the emotional truth of great literature alternate with chapters of strong personal memoir to make this unique book as universal in its reach as it is individual in its telling." (reviewed by Read Ireland Book Review
Issue 119)
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