Description for Needlework Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, Black and white illustration - 1. BIC Classification: YFB; YFN; YXC; YXFD. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 132 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.