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Paperback Valley Song Book

ISBN: 1559361190

ISBN13: 9781559361194

Valley Song

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"Valley Song is a vivid, haunting, serreptitiously personal report from the front. It's a complex play, simply and beautifully done." --Vincent Canby, New York Times

Rarely has a playwright been so closely identified with his country and his people as Athol Fugard. Fugard's extensive body of work has served as one of the moral beacons in the bleak world of South Africa, and now, in Valley Song--this coming-of-age story about a young girl seeking the courage to embrace the future while her grandfather searches for the wisdom to let go of the past--he applies his great gift to the work of healing and of envisioning the future.

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A moving exploration of the landscape of the human heart.

With the blight of apartheid lifted from South Africa, Athol Fugard, that nation's dominant voice in the theater, turns toward a quieter, more introspective story. It is daring in its simplicity, and absolutely shattering in its emotional impact. Its lovely, rural musings on hope, despair, and growth resonate far beyond the fields the action inhabits. There is an excellent framing device of an author (meant to represent Fugard, himself) in whose perceptual inadequacies we find a mirror for our own. Highly recommended.
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