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White Liars
Peter Shaffer
Billy Liar
by Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Synopsis
A teenager in a North Country town, Billy Fisher weaves a world of his own out of his day dreams.
He is an incurable liar, idle and dishonest, and to escape from his dull job as an undertaker's clerk and his dreary domestic background he imagines himself in so many different situations that truth and fiction become hopelessly intermingled.
His family is unable to understand or control him, though they realize that he is a good for nothing.
The cast is completed by the three girls to whom he is simultaneously engaged.
When he is given the chance to start a new life, he turns it down, preferring his dreams to reality.
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Publisher Samuel French
Year 1982
Binding Paperback
Edition New edition
Pages 114
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573111426
ISBN-10 0573111421
Billy Liar is a British comedy play written by Keith Waterhouse and published by Samuel French (1982).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle .
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