The Resource The last days of the national costume, Anne Kennedy
The last days of the national costume, Anne Kennedy
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The item The last days of the national costume, Anne Kennedy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- You'd think that mending clothes would be an uneventful, uncomplicated occupation. No drama, no unnecessary explanations, no personal involvement. But people love to talk, and as they make their excuses to GoGo Sligo, of Megan Sligo Mending and Alterations, they reveal the holes in their stories as well. It doesn't take long for GoGo to get to the truth behind the rips and tears they've brought her to fix. As GoGo listens and sews, she realises she is also helping her clients cheat and lie to their husbands and wives. She's covering their tracks so they won't be found out. A five-week blackout brings the city to its knees, and a drama to her doorstep. A lover, a wife, and finally the cheating husband all come to claim a vintage Irish costume that GoGo's been mending. She doesn't want to like the guilty husband, but can't resist being drawn into the enticing web of his deceit, and then into his story of heartbreak and death on the streets of Belfast. To keep him coming back to the blacked-out house and to prolong the telling of his family's story, GoGo pretends the costume isn't finished. As she makes him return to her, day after day, it becomes clear that another kind of spell is being woven, and GoGo must face the truth about herself and her own life and marriage. An intoxicating, entrancing, gripping novel of illicit love, passion and embroidery, told in an inimitable voice by a brilliant new talent
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The last days of the national costume
- Title
- The last days of the national costume
- Statement of responsibility
- Anne Kennedy
- Subject
-
- Clothing and dress -- Repairing -- Fiction
- trueCostume -- Ireland
- trueDeception
- trueAuckland, New Zealand
- Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- Fiction
- Belfast -- Fiction
- trueCheating (Interpersonal relations)
- trueClothing -- Repairing
- truePower failures
- trueSeamstresses
- trueStorytelling
- Storytelling -- Fiction
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- Love -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNew Zealand
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- You'd think that mending clothes would be an uneventful, uncomplicated occupation. No drama, no unnecessary explanations, no personal involvement. But people love to talk, and as they make their excuses to GoGo Sligo, of Megan Sligo Mending and Alterations, they reveal the holes in their stories as well. It doesn't take long for GoGo to get to the truth behind the rips and tears they've brought her to fix. As GoGo listens and sews, she realises she is also helping her clients cheat and lie to their husbands and wives. She's covering their tracks so they won't be found out. A five-week blackout brings the city to its knees, and a drama to her doorstep. A lover, a wife, and finally the cheating husband all come to claim a vintage Irish costume that GoGo's been mending. She doesn't want to like the guilty husband, but can't resist being drawn into the enticing web of his deceit, and then into his story of heartbreak and death on the streets of Belfast. To keep him coming back to the blacked-out house and to prolong the telling of his family's story, GoGo pretends the costume isn't finished. As she makes him return to her, day after day, it becomes clear that another kind of spell is being woven, and GoGo must face the truth about herself and her own life and marriage. An intoxicating, entrancing, gripping novel of illicit love, passion and embroidery, told in an inimitable voice by a brilliant new talent
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10220455
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kennedy, Anne
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Clothing and dress
- Man-woman relationships
- Storytelling
- Love
- Belfast (Northern Ireland)
- Belfast
- Label
- The last days of the national costume, Anne Kennedy
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000050949753
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9781743313862
- Isbn Type
- (paperback) :
- Label
- The last days of the national costume, Anne Kennedy
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000050949753
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 388 pages
- Isbn
- 9781743313862
- Isbn Type
- (paperback) :
Subject
- Clothing and dress -- Repairing -- Fiction
- trueCostume -- Ireland
- trueDeception
- trueAuckland, New Zealand
- Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- Fiction
- Belfast -- Fiction
- trueCheating (Interpersonal relations)
- trueClothing -- Repairing
- truePower failures
- trueSeamstresses
- trueStorytelling
- Storytelling -- Fiction
- trueExtramarital affairs
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- Love -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueNew Zealand
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