Beauty in a Broken Place [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843510545
• ISBN-13: 978-1843510543
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,561,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Colm Toibin is the author of four previous novels, The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night, and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. He lives in Dublin.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should Be Seen...but reading it is the next best thing, December 4, 2004

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D. Morgan (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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I've lived in Dublin for four months now, and seen a few plays in my time here. The best by far was Toibin's Beauty in a Broken Place, performed at the Peacock Theatre on Abbey Street.
I learned more about theatre, Irish history and culture, and the artistic spirit in the two and a half hours I spent watching this play than in the countless classes I've attended here. This is a wildly interpretive and yet heartreakingly simple and true retelling of the bonds between famed Irish playwrights William Butler Yeats, Sean O'Casey, and Lady Gregory, set against the backdrop of the Irish uprisings and the opening of O'Casey's controversial play (another must-read,) The Plough and the Stars.
I cannot recommend this play highly enough. Read it, go and see it, absorb it...I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

5.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable work, April 13, 2008

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Damien Slattery (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beauty in a Broken Place (Paperback)

Toibin examines Sean O'Casey's early literary life in context with the historical figures around him- Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats. Particularly, the consternation surrounding Sean's controversial PLOUGH AND THE STARS and the defence Yeats and Gregory showered on him. A hugely enjoyable play.