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'Of all contemporary
authors, there is no one I admire more highly than Brian Friel . . . Molly Sweeney
is magnificent and I read it with great joy.'
— Peter Brook Molly Sweeney, blind for almost forty years, has made a life for herself in darkness. Now the 'gift of sight' may be available. Against her better instinct she is urged to grasp it . . . Fifteen years after he wrote his masterpiece, Faith Healer, Brian Friel boldly returns to the same themes and employs the same dramatic method of soliloquy. The result is a literary chamber-music of deep compassion and compelling tragedy. 'The speeches are rich with rapturous poetry and the music of rising and falling emotions. Rarely has Mr Friel written with such intoxicating specificity . . .' — David Richards, The New York Times |
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