Dancing at Lughnasa
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are non…
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- ISBN: 978-0-571-14479-2
- EAN: 9780571144792
- Produktnummer: 9169655
- Verlag: Faber & Faber
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B11.5 cm x D0.6 cm 69 g
- Gewicht: 69
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Brian Friel was born in Omagh, County Tyrone, in 1929. His plays include Philadelphia, Here I Come!,Translations, Faith Healer, Making History, Dancing at Lughnasa and The Home Place.
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