Red Roses And Petrol
A wonderfully comic play from one of Dublin's best writers



In her home in Dublin, Moya is preparing for the funeral mass of her husband, Enda. From England and America her children are returbaning for the sombre occasion. But as the ghosts of the Doyle's past begin to materialise, the consequences are both profoundly disturbing and memorably comic...Joseph O'Connor's previous work includes two highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, Cowboys and Indians and Desperadoes; an anthology of short stories, True Believers; and a hilarious collection of jourbanalism, The Secret World of the Irish Male, which spent three months at number one on the Irish bestseller list.

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Red Roses And Petrol
A wonderfully comic play from one of Dublin's best writers



In her home in Dublin, Moya is preparing for the funeral mass of her husband, Enda. From England and America her children are returbaning for the sombre occasion. But as the ghosts of the Doyle's past begin to materialise, the consequences are both profoundly disturbing and memorably comic...Joseph O'Connor's previous work includes two highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, Cowboys and Indians and Desperadoes; an anthology of short stories, True Believers; and a hilarious collection of jourbanalism, The Secret World of the Irish Male, which spent three months at number one on the Irish bestseller list.

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Red Roses And Petrol

Red Roses And Petrol

by Joseph O'Connor
Red Roses And Petrol

Red Roses And Petrol

by Joseph O'Connor

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A wonderfully comic play from one of Dublin's best writers



In her home in Dublin, Moya is preparing for the funeral mass of her husband, Enda. From England and America her children are returbaning for the sombre occasion. But as the ghosts of the Doyle's past begin to materialise, the consequences are both profoundly disturbing and memorably comic...Joseph O'Connor's previous work includes two highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, Cowboys and Indians and Desperadoes; an anthology of short stories, True Believers; and a hilarious collection of jourbanalism, The Secret World of the Irish Male, which spent three months at number one on the Irish bestseller list.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780413699909
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/12/1995
Series: Modern Plays
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Hometown:

Dublin, Ireland

Date of Birth:

September 20, 1963

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Education:

B.A., University College, Dublin, 1984; M.A., 1986; University College, Oxford, 1987; M.A., University of Leeds, 1991
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