Nocturne : a play / by Adam Rapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapp, Adam.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Accident victims--Family relationships--Drama.

Accident victims.

Fathers and sons--Drama.

Fathers and sons.

Accident victims--Family relationships.

Young men--Drama.

Young men.

New York (N.Y.)--Drama.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Joliet (Ill.)--Drama.

Joliet (Ill.).

Genre:

Drama.

Domestic drama.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

81 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Faber and Faber, 2002.

Summary:

""Fifteen years ago I killed my sister."" So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play "Nocturne," in which a 32-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart. With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, Rapp explores the aftershock of this unimaginable event. The father is so incapable of forgiveness he puts a gun in his son's mouth; the mother so shattered, she deserts the family and eventually takes leave of her sanity altogether; the son--only 17 years old at the time--sets out for New York City. There, he seeks an uneasy refuge in books and reinvents himself as a writer. Across the decade and a half that follows he tries to cope with the ramifications of his own anguish and estrangement while making a desperate search for redemption. A devastating, elegant, and gripping dissection of the American dream, "Nocturne" signals a brave new voice in American theater.

ISBN:

0571211321

OCLC:

47893547