Now We Can Talk Openly About Men
Now We Can Talk Openly About Men Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The second, Babe Cronin, is…
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Now We Can Talk Openly About Men
Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence.
Babe is a stenographer who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for laudanum. Through their separate, overlapping stories, Evans colours an era and a culture seldom voiced in verse.Set back some years from their stories, both women find a strand of humour in what took place, even as they recall the passion, vertigo and terror of those times.
A dream-like compulsion in their voices adds a sense of retrospective inevitability. The use of intense, almost psychedelic colour in the first half of the book opposes the flattened,
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