Other desert cities a play in two acts
"A ... play about a family coming to terms with long held secrets. When a once-promising novelist returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents conflict ensues after she announces the imminent publication of her memoir--a book that focuses on the politically explosive and tragic death of her ant...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] :
Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
[2011], ©2010.
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| Summary: | "A ... play about a family coming to terms with long held secrets. When a once-promising novelist returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents conflict ensues after she announces the imminent publication of her memoir--a book that focuses on the politically explosive and tragic death of her antiwar-activist brother. With her parents trying to cling to their Reaganesque social status, the family is torn apart and must come to grips with its painful past."--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 65 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780802145659 (pbk.) : 0802145655 (pbk.) : |
| Author Notes: | Jon Robin Baitz 's plays include My Beautiful Goddamn City , Ten Unknowns , The Paris Letter , Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, A Fair Country , The Substance of Fire , and an adaptation of Hedda Gabler . |
