The Cripple of Inishman

Resumen del libro

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming
to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than
Billy, an unloved and crippled boy whose chief occupation has been gazing at cows and
yearning for a girl who wants no part of him.
For Billy is determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank. As news of his audacity
ripples through his rumour-starved community, The Cripple of Inishmaan becomes a merciless
portrayal of a world so comically cramped and mean-spirited that hope is an affront to its
order.
With this bleak yet uproariously funny play, Martin McDonagh fulfilled the promise of his
award-winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane while confirming his place in a tradition that
extends from Synge to O'Casey and Brendan Behan.
This Student Edition, complete with plot summary and scholarly notes, is edited by Dr. P.J.
Matthews of University College Dublin.
A darkly savage account of lives stunted in a small 1930s rural community McDonagh offers
a cast of characters whose frail humanity is tested by the fictions that they weave break-yourheart,
cruelly funny. Lyn Gardner, Guardian