| Title : | Breaking out | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Aisling Maguire | | Publisher: | Belfast : Blackstaff Press | | Publication Date: | 2002 | | Pagination: | 248 p. | | Size: | 18 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-85640-732-1 | | General note: | Originally published: 1996. | | Class number: | 823.914 | | Abstract: | Eleanor Leydon is a rebel, and the foster parents she's currently living with (her parents were killed in a car accident) are middle-class Catholics, and she feels stifled. Rejecting their conservative world, she becomes a stonemason and seeks solace in a forbidden love affair which only entraps her further. She gets some help from two women friends. Their travels to France and Greece initiate sexual rivalries and desire, and create a need in Eleanor to find some kind of peace and reconciliation within herself. Maguire's is a powerful vision of the emotional, spiritual, and social impulses that drive our lives. |
Breaking out [printed text] / Aisling Maguire . - Belfast : Blackstaff Press, 2002 . - 248 p. ; 18 cm. ISBN : 978-0-85640-732-1 Originally published: 1996. | Class number: | 823.914 | | Abstract: | Eleanor Leydon is a rebel, and the foster parents she's currently living with (her parents were killed in a car accident) are middle-class Catholics, and she feels stifled. Rejecting their conservative world, she becomes a stonemason and seeks solace in a forbidden love affair which only entraps her further. She gets some help from two women friends. Their travels to France and Greece initiate sexual rivalries and desire, and create a need in Eleanor to find some kind of peace and reconciliation within herself. Maguire's is a powerful vision of the emotional, spiritual, and social impulses that drive our lives. |
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