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The unexpected hero of the second part of the book is the great keyboard player and musical thinker Wanda Landowska
it reads like a traditional children's story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The Godfather' - Sunday Times
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Brendan Behan: The Hostage [1959] paperback HEALT Looking for more on Dublin'sAn essential text in the development of modern British drama First staged by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, in 1958, The Hostage is a play about a Cockney soldier held as a hostage in a Dublin lodging house in exchange for an IRA man who is to be hanged in Belfast. Civic Guards accidentally shoot him in a raid on the house. It is a witty and often profound comment on Anglo Irish relationships
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