Brian Friel in Conversation

Brian Friel in Conversation
ISBN-10
0472067109
ISBN-13
9780472067107
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
289
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Author
Brian Friel

Description

Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood

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