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The god of hell : a play / Sam Shepard.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.H394 G63 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty--Drama.
- Liberty.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Conservatism.
- Middle West--Drama.
- Middle West.
- Conservatism--Drama.
- Right and left (Political science)--Drama.
- Genre:
- Political plays.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 98 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard's latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma. Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank's old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they're visited by Welch, an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma, and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously long half life.
- Notes:
- "A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.
- Premiered in New York City at the Actors Studio Drama School Theater on Oct. 28, 2004.
- ISBN:
- 1400096510
- OCLC:
- 57422759
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