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Bopping in Ballymalloy
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It’s Ireland in the 1950s and they’re both running away, Curly from failure as a dancer in New York and Mary from the utter boredom of Ballymalloy in the West of Ireland.Mary is seduced by his flashy car, his collection of great swing music and his style on and off the dance floor. She succumbs and to atone for the inevitable shame he has caused her, he has to give her the only thing she wants – entry into the unforgiving world he thought he’d left forever. He trains her as a jazz dancer and enters her into a competition that offers her a ticket out of town.The book probes the lives of several inhabitants of Ballymalloy and reveals some funny desires, efforts and strivings. It also probes some horrifying goings on in the workhouses and the industrial schools to which were sent thousands of unwanted children by the church and the religious orders over the decades. Details of these tragic and often fatal stories are still emerging in modern Ireland. However, this story is set in a less complicated time, when America felt good about itself and was admired all over Western Europe. When American technology was supreme and when jazz and bop ruled the world.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
212
ISBN-13:
9781912881130
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1912881136
Udg. Dato:
14 mar 2019
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
215mm
Højde:
141mm
Forlag:
The Book Guild Ltd
Oplagsdato:
14 mar 2019
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