Those The River Keeps

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573694691
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those the River Keeps written by David Rabe and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phil, a supporting character in the author's Hurlyburly, takes center stage in this haunting drama about trying to escape the past. A former mob hitman, Phil is in Hollywood trying to make it as a television actor. He's had a few bit parts, but is hardly a success, and he is largely supported by his wife, Susie, a waitress. Unfortunately, Susie desperately wants something in return, something Phil is not prepared or eager to give: a child. Phil is going nowhere fast when Sal, a mysterious man fr

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802196934
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hurlyburly and Those the River Keeps written by David Rabe and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark American play—and its prequel—from the Tony Award–winning author of Sticks and Bones and In the Boom Boom Room. Nominated for the Tony Award when it was first produced in 1984, Hurlyburly was immediately hailed as a classic American drama. This edition is the definitive version of David Rabe’s most celebrated work, reflecting his continued exploration of the play through several productions—in particular the one he directed in 1988 at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles—and his latest thoughts regarding the text. With Those the River Keeps, the prize-winning playwright embarks on an intense psychological exploration of Hurlyburly’s most dangerous and enigmatic character. This edition contains the definitive versions of these works, a foreword in which Rabe examines the interwoven relationship of the plays, and an afterword in which he discusses the process of their construction. “Fresh, glittering, entertaining, full of wit and blisteringly funny. A stunning comic drama of contemporary life in the Hollywood hills and beyond.” —USA Today “Powerfully written . . . dazzling.” —The New Republic “Offers some of Rabe’s most inventive writing.” —The New York Times “Compelling . . . Those the River Keeps’ strength is its dialogue, which ranges from staccato nonsense to amorphous bursts of palooka philosophy and raw anguish . . . masterfully rendered.” —The Boston Phoenix Praise for David Rabe “Few contemporary dramatists have dealt with violence, physical and psychological, more impressively than Rabe.” —Kirkus Reviews “A remarkable storyteller.” —Chicago Tribune “Rabe’s mastery of dialogue is the equal of Pinter and Mamet put together.” —The Boston Globe

Author : David Rabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Those the River Keeps written by David Rabe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : New York : Grove Weidenfeld
ISBN 13 : 9780802132314
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those the River Keeps written by David Rabe and published by New York : Grove Weidenfeld. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668071
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary American Playwrights written by C. W. E. Bigsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.

Author : David Rabe
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573619816
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hurlyburly written by David Rabe and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Hollywood men pursue the American dream in a cocaine-filled, sex-crazed culture.

Author : Greg Schwipps
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002362
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What This River Keeps written by Greg Schwipps and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the rolling hills of southern Indiana, an elderly couple copes with the fear that their river bottom farm-- the only home they've ever known-- will be taken from them through an act of eminent domain so the river flowing through their land may be dammed to form a reservoir. Their son sinks deeper into troubles of his own, struggling to determine his place in a new romantic relationship and the duty he owes to his family's legacy.

Author : Christopher Buehlman
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 0593198050
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those Across the River written by Christopher Buehlman and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man must confront a terrifying evil in this captivating horror novel that's "as much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz."* Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate--the Savoyard Plantation--and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm, there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of the Savoyard Plantation still stand. Where a long-smoldering debt of blood has never been forgotten. Where it has been waiting for Frank Nichols....

Author : Christopher Buehlman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698146328
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lesser Dead written by Christopher Buehlman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEAR “As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs), Christopher Buehlman excels in twisting the familiar into newfound dread in his “genre-bending” (California Literary Review) novels. Now the acclaimed author of Those Across the River delivers his most disquieting tale yet... The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry... New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks. The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy. Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were. And neither are the rest of us.

Author : Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092781
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sky Time in Gray's River written by Robert Michael Pyle and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author. Sky Time in Gray's River is an elegant meditation on life in the rural Northwest. Although Robert Michael Pyle is a lepidopterist, and southwestern Washington is notable for its lack of butterflies, something about the Gray's River Valley spoke to him when he visited more than forty years ago. Since then he has lived near the village of Gray's River, one of the first to be established near the mouth of the Columbia River and only tenuously connected to the world of the twenty-first century. Pyle brings Gray's River to life by compressing those forty years into twelve chapters, following the lives of the people, plants, and animals that make this valley their home, month by month through the seasons. Through his loving portrait of one riverside village, Pyle illustrates how a special place can transform anyone lucky enough to find it. He shows that you don't have to travel far to see something new every day--if you know how to look.