A Journal of the Plague Year, and Other Plays and Adaptations
- Meyers, S: Journal of the Plague Year, and Other Plays and A
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- Engelsk
- 394 sider
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One of our best novelists here collects plays and adaptations he wrote before turning to fiction. His 1994 take on Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year is a powerful dramatic response to the AIDS epidemic. The one-man play Chesterfield to His Son, adapting that forbidding nobleman’s famous Letters, is a hilariously antic—and painfully accurate—dissection of a father’s love and hopes for his son. Dr. Knox and Mr. Banner examines same-sex desire in 19th-century London and the stories people tell themselves about what makes them who they are.
More characters tell themselves more stories in five sparkling one-act plays set in locales ranging from the sidewalk of West 23rd Street to Seward, Alaska: The Old Agitator continues his lifelong mission, but with modified idealism; a new arrival in Alaska does what she must in order to stay; a grandmother exiled to a suburban lawn examines her life and is inspired to take action; a man explores the sexual temptation offered by a random encounter, and a casual philanderer finally meets a reckoning.
One of the country’s most interesting and accomplished novelists widens his vision with this collection.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal394
- Udgivelsesdato25-06-2019
- ISBN139781733046503
- Forlag Steven Key Meyers/The Smash-and-Grab Press
- FormatPaperback
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10 cm
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