Joe Egg

by Peter Nichols

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802151159
• ISBN13: 9780802151155
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 87 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"