The Quare Fellow & The Hostage 2 Plays by Brendan Behan
by Behan, Brendan
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Evergreen Black Cat Book/Grove Press, 1964. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. New York: An Evergreen Black Cat Book/Published by Grove Press, Inc., Date: 1964. on copyright page: First Evergreen Black Cat Edition, 1964. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Clean glossy cover with minor wear, glued binding tight and solid, pages clean and unmarked. Two full length plays. The Quare Fellow, a tragicomedy, is set in an Irish prison on the eve of an execution. The Hostage is set in a disreputable Dublin lodging house, where a young Cockney soldier is being held hostage in reprisal for an I.R.A.man who is about to be hanged. Rough comedy, hair-raising jocularity, obscene insults, rollicking comedy, satirical songs. An Irish writer and playwright born in Dublin in 1923, Brendan Behan was one of the most colorful and controversial of Irish writers. He spent three years in Borstal, a boys reformatory, which he vividly described in his autobiography, "Borstal Boy" (1958). 182 pages. 12 mo. 1964, Evergreen Black Cat Book/Grove Press.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029475
- Title
- The Quare Fellow & The Hostage 2 Plays by Brendan Behan
- Author
- Behan, Brendan
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Evergreen Black Cat Book/Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 12mo - over 6
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- DRAMA PLAYS THEATRE STAGE
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