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Juno Loves Legs

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The book has sadness running through it. It will have you feeling and thinking about the two main characters. This book is well written and yet, for some reason, it didn't wow me as it did other readers. Juno is a girl from a poor family in Dublin, growing up in the 1970s and coming of age in the 1980s, in a country that was very much under strict Catholic rule.

Navigating youth and beauty as their only commodity, they strike out together, into the fledgling world of art, the markets and thrift shops and arcades of Dublin, and late night parties in abandoned and grand buildings, but the secrets they’ve kept from each other finally catch up and may be their undoing.If you are in the mood for a novel that will rip your heart out and slap you repeatedly in the face with it, have I got a recommendation for you . . . [A] beautiful tale of survival and how friendship can be a salvation." —Liberty Hardy, Book Riot

It was pretty savage actually. I was careful not to overplay those cards because it becomes caricature, but in some ways I think I was kind to the establishment. When children are treated in that way, where does that trauma go? I love vintage shops. You walk in and get that smell – it’s the smell of stories, because every garment has been worn for a multitude of occasions. And sewing is very like writing. I took a course in Glasgow and made a dress. It’s a dog’s dinner but I’m so proud of it. Tragic events separate the pair, but when they reunite, Legs protects and cares for the only person who ever loved him, even while Juno must learn the limits of their relationship and how to let go.

From the Costa-shortlisted, Irish Book Award-shortlisted author of Montpelier Parade, a heartrending novel about finding the person who understands you like nobody else It's only too bad Saoirse Ronan is a bit long in the tooth now to pass as a 12-year-old, as she'd have been perfect casting for Juno, should it ever be adapted to film (although since the character ages to around 24, they'd probably have to split the role and Ms. Ronan could still play the older version). Like fellow Irish novelist Donal Ryan, Geary writes fractured outsiders not just with skill but with humility... Juno Loves Legs, in all its painful beauty, is a more than worthy successor [to Montpelier Parade] Guardian I love cinema, I really do. But cinema now has been transformed and it’s become a kind of a spectacle. There’s very little independent film gets made and if it does get made it usually has to have a star attached, which is less interesting to me ... The relationship between the reader and the writer – that place where they meet ... where the reader has to show up with their imagination, and they have to do a little bit of work, and you hopefully have done enough work that they can have that experience. It’s kind of alchemy, isn’t it?”

Legs is her pal, a young lad who Juno steps in to defend at school when he is being bullied and humiliated by a nun and priest. Juno and Legs form an instant friendship, deep and lasting, that endures even after a period of forced separation. Het is een schrijnend verhaal, een verhaal dat indruk maakt, empathie oproept en boeit, en hoewel ik op sommige punten in het boek graag meer interactie en een grotere rol voor Legs had willen zien en ik af en toe die sterke connectie met de personages een beetje verloor, is dit een rauw en eerlijk verhaal dat beklijft. Een verhaal waarin ellende regelmatig de boventoon voert, maar dat door het zoeken naar licht in de duisternis en de liefde die weerklinkt zeker een aanrader is voor liefhebbers van indringende romans! In the East Village he found what “in retrospect, you called a scene, but we didn’t know it was a scene”. It was a creatively fertile, if gritty, place where he could fill in the gaps in his education by reading, and exchanging books and ideas with friends.Shuggie Bain vibes abound in this tenderhearted tale." —Michelle Hart, An Electric Literature Most Anticipated Book of 2023 I walked here, we’re in a five-star hotel, and Dublin is awash with five-star hotels and it’s awash with homeless people,” he remarks. “I’m writing about the ‘80s, and it’s not out of nostalgia ... it’s looking at this repetitive cycle that we’re in [where] things aren’t changing.” The heartstopping story of a once-in-a-life friendship, for fans of Shuggie Bain, My Brilliant Friend and Just Kids It takes Juno longer than the reader to figure out what’s going on, imbuing the closing chapters with memorable pathos: ‘Illness, I saw, even the slow ones, could only be sudden’

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