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Juno loves Legs : a novel / Karl Geary.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Geary Juno
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geary, Karl, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenagers--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
- Teenagers.
- Friendship--Fiction.
- Friendship.
- Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
- Dublin (Ireland).
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Catapult edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Catapult, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Juno Loves Legs is the story of two teens labeled as delinquents. Juno and "Legs" grow up on the same housing estate in Dublin, where spirited, intelligent Juno is ostracized for her poverty and Legs is persecuted for his sexuality; they find safety only in each other. Set against the backdrop of Dublin in the 1980s, a place of political, social and religious change, the friends yearn for an unbound life and together they begin to fight to take up the space of who they truly are. Told through the eyes of Juno, we see the pair begin to navigate the political and oftentimes confusing adult world with honesty and intuition. A country emerging from a dark Catholicism into the wider world of possibilities. Who is invited into modernity and gentrification and who is left behind?"-- Provided by publisher
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781646221134
- 1646221133
- OCLC:
- 1375383799
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