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The Cloths of Heaven
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Geraldine Nesbitt
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Category:  Mainstream
Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN-10:  0595166601

Type: Fiction

Pages: 296

Copyright: 
Mar 1 2001

Irish Contemporary Fiction. Living with disability in Ireland in the 1970's and 1980's.

In this page turning episode written through the voice of Sheila McGann, a

teenager stricken at a young age by cerebral palsy, we learn ironic truths

about freedom. The characters could be your next door neighbors, and yet,

written against the backdrop of the upsurging Northern Irish conflict in the

1970's, for this American reviewer, the cultish lure of the IRA, the

tortuous restrictiveness of Irish religion for modern priests and the people

of Ireland, held back while looking on feverishly through new media to a

world where artists such as David Bowie are pushing the boundaries of

personal freedom, are almost as exotic as a trip to the Galapogos.  


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Reviewed by geraldine nesbitt 6/7/2002
This is a different coming of age story - a story that tells of the hopes and fears of two girls: one a prisoner of her twisted body, the other a prisoner of mistaken ideas of love and acceptance. It is a story of the friendship and jealousies that shape their relationship. It is also the story of the women who are mothers to these girls, the things that haunt them, the things that set them free, the worries they have for their children and for themselves. Set against the turbulent background of Ireland in the 70's and the changing ideas about the role that women and disabled people have in the world, The Cloths Of Heaven paints a picture that is sometimes funny, sometimes sad and always engaging.

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