{"id":464,"date":"2003-12-01T23:38:13","date_gmt":"2003-12-01T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evelynconlon.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:39:36","slug":"skin-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evelynconlon.com\/skin-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cConlon illuminates powerfully the dark corners of life we rage against but don\u2019t, won\u2019t engage with, such as death row and the lives of its inmates and prison warders\u2026 Conlon has honed her already sharp observations of the little cruelties and comedies of tragedy and in this tale it is near perfect. This is an extraordinary and angry novel, which, once started, keeps you riveted with a peculiar fascination right to the end\u201d. –Books Ireland<\/em> (national literary review).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This moving and disturbing novel confronts the experience of capital punishment\u2026 Skin of Dreams<\/em> is also about the love between twins, and the loss of balance when that relationship is interrupted. Conlon subtly evokes the multiple worlds\u2026 from a drowning village in Ireland to a sojourn in Tennessee, from drinking nights in Dublin to Death Row, from an unresolved past to the fearful resolution of judicial murder.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough two continents and two generations Evelyn Conlon traces the countenance of life and death and its so-called punishment, in a tale deftly told with revelation that startles with new insight.\u201d -Sam Reese Sheppard, co-author of Mockery of Justice.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cConlon illuminates powerfully the dark corners of life we rage against but don\u2019t, won\u2019t engage with, such as death row and the lives of its inmates and prison warders. Conlon has honed her already sharp observations of the little cruelties and comedies of tragedy and in this tale it is near perfect. This is an extraordinary and angry novel, which, once started, keeps you riveted with a peculiar fascination right to the end\u201d. Books Ireland <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[39],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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