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After the rain; [a play].
LIBRA PR6052.O85 A64 1967b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowen, John, 1924-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 118 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [©1967]
- Summary:
- This play is "a well-imagined fable" of events in the future. The time is '200 years after the Rain of 1969' and the action is a paraphrase of the Bible, commencing with the ark and the flood and ending with the sacrifice of the god-figure. A vital youth and a girl are introduced to the rituals of the community led by Arthur, who believes himself divine. Another man becomes his priest and establishes a ritual-ablutions, confession, audiences, sacrifices, etc. But Arthur is disabused of his godly notions and convinced that he was only possessed by God and was only his vicar. It is he who must be sacrificed. --www.doollee.com.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has review slip laid in at front.
- OCLC:
- 440331
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