George Ryga (Critical Survey of Drama)
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In addition to stage plays, plays for radio and television, poems, film scripts, and song lyrics, George Ryga wrote four novels and one fictionalized memoir of a journey through China. Ryga’s first published novel, Hungry Hills (1963), is a story of a young man who returns to the cruel, barren prairie community that had exiled him three years earlier. Like many of Ryga’s plays, Hungry Hills describes the suffering and isolation of the outcast whose social and spiritual alienation is further embittered by a “desperate climate which...
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