Oona /
By: Lyons, Alice [author.].
Publisher: Dublin : The Lilliput Press, 2020Description: x, 262 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 184351771X; 9781843517719:; 9781843517719.Subject(s): English fiction -- 21st century
| Bildungsromans | English fiction -- Irish authors | New Jersey -- FictionGenre/Form: Bildungsromans.DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Oona, an artist-in-the-making, lives in an affluent suburban culture of first-generation immigrants in New Jersey where conspicuous consumption and white privilege prevail, and the denial of death is ubiquitous. The silence surrounding death extends to the family home where Oona is not told while her mother lies dying of cancer upstairs. Afterwards, a silence takes hold inside her: her inner life goes into a deep freeze. Emotionally hobbled, she has her first encounters with sex, drugs and other trials of adolescence.
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| 823.92 LAP The little one / | 823.92 LYO Oona / | 823.92 LYO Oona / | 823.92 LYO Oona / | 823.92 MAC Midwinter break / | 823.92 MAN Like a mule bringing ice cream to the sun / | 823.92 MAR The cruelty men / |
Includes bibliographical references (page 262).
Oona, an artist-in-the-making, lives in an affluent suburban culture of first-generation immigrants in New Jersey where conspicuous consumption and white privilege prevail, and the denial of death is ubiquitous. The silence surrounding death extends to the family home where Oona is not told while her mother lies dying of cancer upstairs. Afterwards, a silence takes hold inside her: her inner life goes into a deep freeze. Emotionally hobbled, she has her first encounters with sex, drugs and other trials of adolescence.