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Nocturne: A Play

Nocturne: A Play

Rapp, Adam

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ISBN10: 0571211321
ISBN13: 9780571211326
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Feb 10 2002
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
Awards: Saroyan Writing Prize

A devastating, elegant, and gripping dissection of the American dream, Adam Rapp's Nocturne signals a brave new voice in American theater.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play Nocturne, in which a 32-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart.

With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, Rapp explores the aftershock of this unimaginable event. The father is so incapable of forgiveness he puts a gun in his son's mouth; the mother so shattered, she deserts the family and eventually takes leave of her sanity altogether; the son--only 17 years old at the time--sets out for New York City. There, he seeks an uneasy refuge in books and reinvents himself as a writer. Across the decade and a half that follows he tries to cope with the ramifications of his own anguish and estrangement while making a desperate search for redemption.

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