Hare Soup - Softcover

Molloy, Dorothy

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ISBN 10: 0571219896 ISBN 13: 9780571219896

Publisher: Faber, 2004

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Hare Soup is the startling d�but from Dorothy Molloy. Molloy's deftly crafted poems are as unsettling as they are affecting, exploring a world of intimacy from the tensely erotic to something altogether more malevolent. Using cabaret and dark comedy, she holds up a mirror to our most private relations, producing a poetry-of-the-absurd that will make your hair stand on end. But there is also a very subtle poet at work, whose lyrical, musical lines resonate well beyond their final reading.

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Synopsis:

Dorothy Molloy allows survivors of sexual, physical and social violence to tell their stories as if life's horrors were little more than a passing distraction. The result is a series of finely-wrought poems of black comedy, in which the sinister and hilarious wrestle for supremacy. The settings reflect Molloy's world - Spain, France, her native Ireland - but these themes are universal: suffering, deceit, loss and the struggle for expression.

About the Author:

Dorothy Molloy was born in Ballina, County Mayo, in 1942, and grew up in County Dublin. She studied languages at University College, Dublin, before going to Barcelona where she worked as a historical researcher, journalist and painter. She returned to Dublin in 1979, where she lived with her husband. Dorothy Molloy died in 2004.

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