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A Journal of the Plague Year, and Other Plays and Adaptations
Steven Key Meyers/The Smash-And-Grab Press
ISBN13:
9781733046503
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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.
- | Author: Steven Key Meyers
- | Publisher: Steven Key Meyers/The Smash-And-Grab Press
- | Publication Date: Jun 25, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 394 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 173304650X
- | ISBN-13: 9781733046503
- Author:
- Steven Key Meyers
- Publisher:
- Steven Key Meyers/The Smash-And-Grab Press
- Publication Date:
- Jun 25, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 394 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 173304650X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781733046503