Conor McPherson Plays: Two Paperback / softback
by Conor McPherson
Part of the NHB Collected Works series
Paperback / softback
Description
The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author. Included in this volume is Conor McPherson's The Weir, one of the most successful plays of recent years.
In a bar in a remote part of Ireland, the local lads are swapping spooky stories to impress a young woman from Dublin newly moved into the area... 'A spellbinder that transfixes you... No praise in fact is too high' GuardianDublin Carol is set on Christmas Eve, when a Dublin undertaker is visited by his estranged daughter urging him to face up to the past. 'McPherson writes like a dream.... The play works an ingenious spell' Daily MailPort Authority tells of three interwoven lives: a boy leaves home for the first time; a man starts a job for which he is unqualified; a pensioner is sent a mysterious package... 'Overwhelmingly poignant... desolate, searing eloquence' Evening StandardAnd in Come on Over, published here for the first time, a Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before. 'Piercingly evocative, powerfully exploring the tension between human and divine love' Daily TelegraphThe volume also contains an Afterword by the author.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date:03/11/2004
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- ISBN:9781854597779
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date:03/11/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9781854597779
