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Faith Healer
Professor Christopher Murray
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Description for Faith Healer
Paperback. Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling which brings him into conflict with his wife Grace and his manager Teddy. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 243 x 9. Weight in Grams: 96.
'The writing is beautiful, supple, rhythmical, charged with the slow, sure throb of despair and enchantment... Brian Friel is the most profound and poetic of contemporary Irish dramatists.' Observer Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling which brings him into conflict with his wife Grace and his manager Teddy. Their competing accounts of past events reveal the fragility of memory and the necessity of stories as a means of survival. ... Read more
'The writing is beautiful, supple, rhythmical, charged with the slow, sure throb of despair and enchantment... Brian Friel is the most profound and poetic of contemporary Irish dramatists.' Observer Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling which brings him into conflict with his wife Grace and his manager Teddy. Their competing accounts of past events reveal the fragility of memory and the necessity of stories as a means of survival. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571333882
SKU
9780571333882
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About Professor Christopher Murray
Brian Friel was born in County Tyrone in 1929. He died in County Donegal on 2 October 2015.
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