Lydie Breeze / John Guare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guare, John.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communal living.

Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Drama.

Nantucket Island (Mass.).

Communal living--Drama.

Genre:

Historical drama.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Guare, John (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

204 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2001.

Summary:

An extensive reworking of two earlier (1981) plays by John Guare about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket, Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism. The result is an almost surreal saga of American life, with allegorical meditations on the contradictions and interconnectedness of all things and the chaotic nature of the universe.

Contents:

pt. 1. Bulfinch's mythology

pt. 2. The sacredness of the next task.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

Contains:

Guare, John. Bulfinch's mythology.

Guare, John. Sacredness of the next task.

Bulfinch's mythology.

Sacredness of the next task.

ISBN:

0739419293

1585671584

OCLC:

45879863