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Faith Healer

(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Faith Healer

Contributors:

By (Author) Brian Friel

ISBN:

9780571333882

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

24th August 2016

UK Publication Date:

1st August 2024

Edition:

Main - Re-issue

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

822.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

64

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 7mm

Weight:

95g

Description

Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling which brings him into conflict with his wife Grace and his manager Teddy. Their competing accounts of past events reveal the fragility of memory and the necessity of stories as a means of survival.

Brian Friel's Faith Healer was first produced at the Longacre Theatre, New York, in April 1979 and was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in June 2016. 'The night of Faith Healer is one that still blazes in recollection for me, as religious experiences of art do. And it became a sort of touchstone for me in understanding not only Mr. Friel's work with a depth I hadn't appreciated before but also for defining the elusiveness of great art and the pain of the artist who creates it.' - Ben Brantley, New York Times

Author Bio

Born in 1929 in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel was one of Ireland's most prominent playwrights. In addition to his published plays, he has written short stories; screenplays; film, TV and Radio adaptations of his plays; and several pieces of non-fiction on the role of theatre and the artist. He died in 2015.

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