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Karl Geary’s Juno Loves Legs is a masterpiece set in 1980s Dublin
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Karl Geary is one of the finest writers that Ireland has produced. Photo: Ollie Grove
Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary
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If we start by saying that Karl Geary writes relationships well, we have to mention how beautifully and subtly he allows the story to unfold. Then we’re onto how well he evokes time and place, and eventually, it’s best just to give up and say that, in this reviewer’s opinion, Geary is one of the finest writers that Ireland has produced. And that Juno Loves Legs is a masterpiece.
Both this and 2016’s sparkling debut, Montpelier Parade, provide pitch-perfect evocations of male-female relationships and of 1980s Ireland, in all its mucky, fag-smoke-clouded glory. Geary escaped Dublin for New York in his mid-teens (and now lives in Glasgow) but it seems that the city and the era remain close to his heart.
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