Three Tall Women - Brossura

Albee, Edward

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ISBN 10: 0452274001 ISBN 13: 9780452274006

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1995

Riassunto

Hovering on the brink of death, a ninety-two-year-old woman recounts three stages of her painful life

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Praise for Three Tall Women

“Stunning...a masterpiece.”—Time

“A truly moving work...an undeniably affecting emotional core and a shimmeringly black sense of humor...essential for anyone interested in the forces that have shaped this influential writer.”—Ben Brantley, New York Times

“Another great play...a dazzler...a triumphant return to the town that feted and lionized the young playwright three decades ago.”—Wall Street Journal

“A powerful and moving work, his most emotionally affecting play since Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?...A memorable trinity of women...a passionate encounter with mortality.”—Newsweek

“Fine and authentic...Three Tall Women restores, or confirms, Edward Albee as one of America’s leading playwrights.”—New York Observer

L'autore:

Edward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream, Tiny Alice, All Over, Listening, The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Fragments, Marriage Play and The Lorca Play.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0452274001
• ISBN 13: 9780452274006
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128