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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
      Publication Date: 29/05/1975
      ISBN13: 9780571085866, 978-0571085866
      ISBN10: 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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