Stone cold dead serious : and other plays / Adam Rapp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapp, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swindlers and swindling--Drama.

Swindlers and swindling.

Devil.

Summer.

Young adults.

Working class families.

Working class families--Drama.

Young adults--Drama.

Teenage boys--Drama.

Teenage boys.

Summer--Drama.

Devil--Drama.

East Village (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.

East Village (New York, N.Y.).

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Faber and Faber, 2004.

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.

Contents:

Stone cold dead series

Faster

Finer noble gases.

ISBN:

0571211399

OCLC:

52943095

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