Joe Egg
Paperback (11 Jan 1994)
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This brilliantly written, deeply moving play about the problems of a young couple with a spastic daughter-the "Joe Egg" of the title-was described by Ronald Bryden in The Observer (London) as a "remarkable play about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men: living with a child born so hopelessly crippled as to be, as the father in it says brutally, a human parsnip. For all that, it has to be described as a comedy, one of the funniest and most touching I've seen. The bridge between its form and content is a simple but brilliant stroke of theatre. Over the years, the author implies, explaining to others how one lives with such a situation becomes a kind of set party piece. This, savagely exaggerated, is what he has written-a recital, interspersed with jazz, imitations and tap-dances, about life with Joe Egg."
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802151155 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 11 Jan 1994 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 87 |
Weight: | 113g |
Height: | 216mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 7mm |