Author: McDonagh, Martin

Price: $12.79

Category:Dramas & Plays
Publication Date:1998-09-08T00:00:01Z
Pages:128
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0375705236
ISBN:13:9780375705236
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief occupation has been grazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. And as news of his audacity ripples through his rumor-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its order.