![]() ![]() “The Dead Heart” (1994) attracted just about everybody’s attention with its unapologetic language, its shrewd allegoric portrayal of a totalitarian society and his sardonic, yet comprehensive, attitude towards the shortcomings of our devoid of meaning contemporary existence. Two more non-fiction titles and a novel, "The Dead Heart", followed. This appeared in 1988, the same year that he and his ex-wife moved to London. After several radio plays for the BBC and one stage play - "Send Lawyers", "Guns and Money", premiered at the Peacock in 1986 - he decided to switch direction and wrote a narrative travel book, "Beyond the Pyramids". At the age of 28, he resigned from The Peacock to write full time. Thus he was hired to run the Abbey Theatre's second house, The Peacock. In 1977, he returned to Dublin and started a co-operative theatre company with a friend. His father was a commodities broker and his mother worked at NBC. ![]() Douglas Kennedy was born in Manhattan in 1955. ![]()
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