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David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as ''one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation''.

In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent to a remote island. Together with its authoritarian leaseholder and his niece they observe an innocence that is about to be destroyed forever. San Diego offers a strange and occasionally nightmarish journey into the heart of the contemporary American dream, weaving together stories of illegal immigrants, of film stars and whores, and even of the playwright himself. Pyrenees follows a man found lying in the snow in the foothills as he tries to piece together his identity. In The American Pilot a crash-landing in a remote valley in a distant country raises questions about how the world sees America and how America sees the world.

The collection also includes a trilogy of short

Selected Plays 19992009

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 02/09/2010
      ISBN13: 9780571234158, 978-0571234158
      ISBN10: 0571234151
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as ''one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation''.

      In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent to a remote island. Together with its authoritarian leaseholder and his niece they observe an innocence that is about to be destroyed forever. San Diego offers a strange and occasionally nightmarish journey into the heart of the contemporary American dream, weaving together stories of illegal immigrants, of film stars and whores, and even of the playwright himself. Pyrenees follows a man found lying in the snow in the foothills as he tries to piece together his identity. In The American Pilot a crash-landing in a remote valley in a distant country raises questions about how the world sees America and how America sees the world.

      The collection also includes a trilogy of short

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