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Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father''s grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O''Donnell has accepted his aunt''s invitation to come to Philadelphia. Now, on the eve of his departure, he is not happy to be leaving Ballybeg.

With this play Brian Friel made his reputation and it is now an acknowledged classic of modern drama.

Philadelphia Here I Come

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 29 May 1975
      ISBN-13 9780571085866
      978-0571085866
      ISBN-10 571085865
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      Fiction Poetry ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: plays and playwrights

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Fed up with the dreary round of life in Ballybeg, with his uncommunicative father and the humiliating job in his father''s grocery shop, with his frustrated love for Kathy Doogan who married a richer, more successful young man and with the total absence of prospect and opportunity in his life at home, Gareth O''Donnell has accepted his aunt''s invitation to come to Philadelphia. Now, on the eve of his departure, he is not happy to be leaving Ballybeg.

      With this play Brian Friel made his reputation and it is now an acknowledged classic of modern drama.

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