Author(s): Deirdre Sullivan
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 224
Publisher: Little Island
Language: English
Date Published: 2016-02-25
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 22mm
Publication City/Country: Dublin, Ireland
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Illustrations: Black and white illustration - 1

'I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.' Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect.