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Fathers Come First
Rosita Sweetman
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Description for Fathers Come First
Paperback. 'Fathers Come First' is a coming of age novel following the dreams and tribulations of a school leaver, Elizabeth who becomes a model in a swinging 1970's Dublin. Rosita Sweetman eloquently describes the wonder and torment of falling in love, getting hurt, sexual awakening and finding independence. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
Rosita Sweeman’s Fathers Come First is a coming-of-age classic set against a Dublin-city backdrop. Elizabeth is both gauche and perspicacious, walking the edge of her stereotypes while hobbled by the pressures of acceptance – social, physical and sexual. In a world informed by a Catholic upbringing, she wonders whether her indiscretions belong in the letterbox or the confession box. Curious, unflinching and disarmingly honest, teenager turned twenty-something Lizzie speaks to the changes and continuities in Irish society across forty years. It is a novel as relevant today as when it was first published.
Rosita Sweeman’s Fathers Come First is a coming-of-age classic set against a Dublin-city backdrop. Elizabeth is both gauche and perspicacious, walking the edge of her stereotypes while hobbled by the pressures of acceptance – social, physical and sexual. In a world informed by a Catholic upbringing, she wonders whether her indiscretions belong in the letterbox or the confession box. Curious, unflinching and disarmingly honest, teenager turned twenty-something Lizzie speaks to the changes and continuities in Irish society across forty years. It is a novel as relevant today as when it was first published.
Product Details
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843516347
SKU
V9781843516347
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Ref
99-10
About Rosita Sweetman
Rosita Sweetman, born in 1948, a Dublin-based writer and journalist, was one of Ireland's earliest and most achieved feminists. She is author of the celebrated 'On Our Knees': Ireland 1972, twenty-four profiles of Irish people north and south, and On Our Backs (1979), twenty-seven further interviews that sketch Ireland's changing sexual attitudes in the last quarter of the twentieth century. ... Read more
Reviews for Fathers Come First
This book is more pertinent than ever, because 40 years on, women are still confused about sex and destiny. And fathers still come first – in the political sphere, the artistic sphere.’ – Anne Harris, The Sunday Independent.