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This brilliantly written, deeply moving play about the problems of a young couple with a spastic daughter-the "Joe Egg" of the title-was described by Ronald Bryden in The Observer (London) as a "remarkable play about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men: living with a child born so hopelessly crippled as to be, as the father in it says brutally, a human parsnip. For all that, it has to be described as a comedy, one of the funniest and most touching I've seen. The bridge between its form and content is a simple but brilliant stroke of theatre. Over the years, the author implies, explaining to others how one lives with such a situation becomes a kind of set party piece. This, savagely exaggerated, is what he has written-a recital, interspersed with jazz, imitations and tap-dances, about life with Joe Egg."

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Joe Egg
• Author: Nichols, Peter Nichols
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 87
• EAN: 9780802151155
• ISBN: 0802151159
• ID: 11521493
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Weight: 118 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 136 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: January 1994

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