New plays / Joyce Carol Oates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Plays. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 284 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Ontario Review Press []; New York : Distributed by George Braziller, [1998.]

Summary:

Joyce Carol Oates's fourth and most distinguished collection includes three flail-length plays, Bad Girls, Black Water, The Passion of Henry David Thoreau, and eight shorter pieces, which have been performed in various cities throughout the country.

Bad Girls is the story of three teenage sisters who ruin the life of the man who comes between them and their single mother; Black Water is a dramatization of Oates's widely acclaimed novel of that title; and The Passion of Henry David Thoreau is a portrayal of the turbulent life and premature death of Thoreau. The subjects of the shorter pieces range widely, from a serial murder to a nightmarish visit to an adoption agency. In plays ranging from the realistic to the surreal, Oates convincingly demonstrates her mastery of the form.

Contents:

Bad girls

Black water

The passion of Henry David Thoreau

Here I am

Duet

Good to know you

Poor Bibi

Homesick

The adoption

No next of kin

When I was a little girl and my mother didn't want me.

Notes:

"This new collection, her fourth, includes three full-length plays: 'Bad Girls,' 'Black Water,' 'The Passion of Henry David Thoreau,' and eight shorter pieces."--Dustjacket.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0865380899

9780865380899

0865380902

9780865380905

OCLC:

38048143