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The Overwhelming: A Play by J. T. Rogers (2007 Trade Paperback) - VG!
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Era
- 2000s
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780865479746
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0865479747
ISBN-13
9780865479746
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59787526
Product Key Features
Book Title
Overwhelming : a Play
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
American / General
Genre
Drama
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
7.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-020535
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A gripping political thriller . . . captures the sense of terror when the division between political discussion and murder is membrane-thin." -Rachel Halliburton, Time Out London "The theatre is a tribunal whose task is to present the bloody evidence and ask what you think of yourself as a member of the human race. I have seldom seen this task performed with such unprejudiced but devestating power." -John Peter, The Sunday Times, "The theatre is a tribunal whose task is to present the bloody evidence and ask what you think of yourself as a member of the human race. I have seldom seen this task performed with such unprejudiced but devestating power." -John Peter, The Sunday Times, "A gripping political thriller . . . captures the sense of terror when the division between political discussion and murder is membrane-thin." -Rachel Halliburton, Time Out London "The theatre is a tribunal whose task is to present the bloody evidence and ask what you think of yourself as a member of the human race. I have seldom seen this task performed with such unprejudiced but devestating power." -John Peter, The Sunday Times, Â"A gripping political thriller . . . captures the sense of terror when the division between political discussion and murder is membrane-thin.Â" Â-Rachel Halliburton,Time Out London "The theatre is a tribunal whose task is to present the bloody evidence and ask what you think of yourself as a member of the human race. I have seldom seen this task performed with such unprejudiced but devestating power." Â-John Peter,The Sunday Times, A gripping political thriller . . . captures the sense of terror when the division between political discussion and murder is membrane-thin." –Rachel Halliburton,Time Out London "The theatre is a tribunal whose task is to present the bloody evidence and ask what you think of yourself as a member of the human race. I have seldom seen this task performed with such unprejudiced but devestating power." –John Peter,The Sunday Times, "A gripping political thriller . . . captures the sense of terror when the division between political discussion and murder is membrane-thin." -Rachel Halliburton, Time Out London, "A gripping political thriller . . . captures the sense of terror when the division between political discussion and murder is membrane-thin." -- Rachel Halliburton, Time Out London "The theatre is a tribunal whose task is to present the bloody evidence and ask what you think of yourself as a member of the human race. I have seldom seen this task performed with such unprejudiced but devestating power." -- John Peter, The Sunday Times, A gripping political thriller . . . captures the sense of terror when the division between political discussion and murder is membrane-thin., The theatre is a tribunal whose task is to present the bloody evidence and ask what you think of yourself as a member of the human race. I have seldom seen this task performed with such unprejudiced but devestating power.
Dewey Decimal
812/.6
Synopsis
As a middle-aged American academic who desperately needs to publish a book in order to gain tenure, Jack Exley leaps at the chance to go to Rwanda to write about his old college classmate Dr. Joseph Gasana, who has in the intervening years has specialized in treating children stricken by AIDS. But when Jack, along with his African-American second wife, Linda, and his disaffected teenage son, Geoffrey, arrive in Kigali in the fall of 1994, they are not only unable to find Joseph, they are unable to find anyone who will even admit to having known the Tutsi doctor. Befriended by both a cynical American diplomat and a perhaps too-helpful Hutu political powerbroker, Jack and his family slowly, then urgently, become enmeshed in the tension and terror, the professional risks and personal betrayals, that they ultimately realize mark the start of a genocidal war--a horror that they can sense but cannot comprehend or control. In The Overwhelming, J.T. Rogers has written a play that is both a brilliantly crafted piece of writing and a tense, suspenseful exploration of one of the great human tragedies of our time. It will have its U.S. premiere off-Broadway in November 2007., As a middle-aged American academic who desperately needs to publish a book in order to gain tenure, Jack Exley leaps at the chance to go to Rwanda to write about his old college classmate Dr. Joseph Gasana, who has in the intervening years has specialized in treating children stricken by AIDS. But when Jack, along with his African-American second wife, Linda, and his disaffected teenage son, Geoffrey, arrive in Kigali in the fall of 1994, they are not only unable to find Joseph, they are unable to find anyone who will even admit to having known the Tutsi doctor. Befriended by both a cynical American diplomat and a perhaps too-helpful Hutu political powerbroker, Jack and his family slowly, then urgently, become enmeshed in the tension and terror, the professional risks and personal betrayals, that they ultimately realize mark the start of a genocidal war--a horror that they can sense but cannot comprehend or control. In "The Overwhelming, "J.T. Rogers has written a play that is both a brilliantly crafted piece of writing and a tense, suspenseful exploration of one of the great human tragedies of our time. It will have its U.S. premiere off-Broadway in November 2007.
LC Classification Number
PS3618.O463O94 2007
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