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The Metal Children
Faber & Faber 2010; US$ 14.99In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. Its directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected... more...
David Kranes Selected Plays
Level 4 Press, Inc. 2011; US$ 9.95Collection of plays by David Kranes more...
Wrecks
Faber & Faber 2007; US$ 14.99Can someone honestly love a person whom they have deceived for thirty years? This is the central question behind Wrecks , Neil LaBute's latest foray into the dark side of human nature. Meet Edward Carr: loving father, successful businessman, grieving widower. In this concise powerhouse of a play, LaBute limns the boundaries of love, exploring the... more...
Detroit
Faber & Faber 2011; US$ 14.99In a ?first ring? suburb outside a midsize American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who?ve moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers out of control, shattering the fragile hold that newly unemployed Ben and burgeoning alcoholic Mary have on their way of life?with unexpected comic... more...
DRINKS BEFORE DINNER
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 8.95The long-unavailable work by one of America's most eminent writers. more...
A View from the Bridge
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableEddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just, as Eddie claims, that he's too strange, too sissy, too careless for her,... more...
After the Fall
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableQuentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense of guilt and the shadows of his past relationships. One of these an ill-fated marriage to the charming and beautiful Maggie, who went from operating a switchboard to become a self-destructive star - a singer everyone wanted a piece of. After... more...
Clybourne Park
Faber & Faber 2011; US$ 15.99Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing a plot line from Lorraine Hansberry?s A Raisin in the Sun ) and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of... more...
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 9.99Drama in three acts by Lorraine Hansberry, produced in 1964 and published the following year. The play concerns the nature of personal commitment to an ideal. The character Sidney Brustein is a disillusioned white intellectual. Alton Scales, a black activist who loves Sidney's sister-in-law, Gloria, persuades Sidney to support the candidacy of... more...
Soul of a Whore and Purvis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012; US$ 19.99Two plays?hilarious and searing in equal measure?by one of our most essential and original authors In his poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson has explored the story of America?especially of the West, land of self-made men and self-perpetuating myths?with searing honesty and genuine... more...









