James Purdy Selected Plays
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James Purdy: Selected Plays
Author: James Purdy
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2009-06-16
Hailed as "a creative genius" (TLS) and "a singular American visionary" (New York Times ), James Purdy may be best known for his remarkable novels, but he was also an astonishing playwright who wrote nine full-length and twenty short plays. Purdy was one of the few contemporary American writers capable of writing tragedy-Tennessee Williams called him "a uniquely gifted man of the theater." This collection presents four riveting and beautifully crafted works: Brice, The Paradise Circus, Where Quentin Goes, and Ruthanna Elder. Each explores a range of emotional and familial tangles, as fathers betray their sons and squander their inheritances, siblings compete for parental affection, and husbands and wives try to salvage meaning from their broken marriages.
James Purdy: Selected Plays
"James Purdy's Selected plays will break your damaged little heart."--John Winter."James Purdy's plays have much of the exciting existentiality that infuses his novels and seem content to take drama to interesting places it does not always want to go." -- Edward Albee."James Purdy is an authentic American genius." --Gore Vidal.
Selected Plays of Edward Albee
"Powerful, probing, vivid and arresting, these eight plays -- the personal choices of Edward Albee -- are together for the first time in this exclusive members' edition."--The dust-jacket front flap