The Yalta game
after Chekhov
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Author
Publication
2001 - Gallery Press, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland, Ireland
Language
English
Word Count
9,000 words, Guess
Page Count
36 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101852353023
- ISBN-101852353015
- ISBN-139781852353025
- ISBN-139781852353018
- Goodreads4338850', '410597
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001536499
- OCLC Control Number48065942
- Better World BooksP9-CVZ-833
- Open LibraryOL3544645M
Classifications
- DDC822/.914
- LCCPR6056.R5 Y35 2001
- LCCPR6056.R5 Y3 2001
Description
"Brian Friel's affinity with the work of certain nineteenth-century Russian writers is manifest in his own fiction and drama and in acclaimed adaptations of works by Chekov and Turgenev." "This marvellously inventive new play is based on a theme in 'The Lady with the Lapdog', a story Chekov wrote in 1899. At an end-of-season resort on the shore of the Black Sea, a pair of strangers play 'the Yalta game': divining the lives of other holiday-makers or investing the lives of others with an imagined life. These companions in adventure seek an end to their loneliness by throwing themselves into the game and by almost convincing each other that 'disappointments are only the postponement of the complete happiness which has to come'." "Brian Friel has unravelled a thread of Chekov's original and woven it afresh into a startling tapestry of deep longings and flawed resolutions."--Jacket.
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Genres
- Drama
Series Statement
- Gallery books
Other Editions
- The Yalta game: after Chekhov
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