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 nonetheless a part.
Author: Brian Friel
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 12/30/1998
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.10w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9780571144792
Language: English
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