Anywhere but Here
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Anywhere but Here
Mona Simpson's first novel deals with a complex relationship between a mother and daughter. Adele August, twice-married woman, hoping to turn her 12-year-old daughter, Ann, into a child star in Hollywood, drives her from Wisconsin to Beverly Hills. However, Ann achieves only limited success as a television performer, and Adele works at mundane jobs in order to survive, deluding herself with imagined love affairs. By novel's end, the emotionally trying--and occasionally violent--mother-daughter relationship is altered by Ann's growing need for independence.
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Four Tragedies and Octavia
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Four Tragedies and Octavia
Dramas by the classical playwright and philosopher are accompanied by a modern work to demonstrate the Roman's impact on the development of the tragedy
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Actors Book of Classical Monologues
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Actors Book of Classical Monologues
Over 150 challenging solo pieces for actors and actresses of all ages have been culled from both well-known and lesser-known works. The monologues range from Greek drama to Restoration comedy and feature a generous supply of Shakespeare.
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House of Mirth
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House of Mirth
Published in 1905, Edith Wharton's first novel, THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, navigates the murky waters of class-bound courtship and marriage in turn-of-the-century upper-crust Manhattan. Ironic, sharp, and tragic, the novel follows beautiful, orphaned Lily Bart in her search for a rich husband--the only route open to her if she is to survive in a ruthlessly materialistic world. Mercilessly, Wharton exposes the cruelty and indifference of a society in which such a woman has no role except to be exploited and looked down upon. Nor does she neglect to expose the vanity and delusions of poor Lily herself--qualities that undermine her considerable intelligence and charm. As always, Wharton is writing about a world she knows first-hand, and one in which she suffered her own trials. The complex and poignant tale of Lily Bart is one of her most popular and successful novels
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For the Love of Money
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For the Love of Money
In this sequel to Tyree's popular FLYY GIRL, Tracy leaves her schoolteacher job for a screen writing career in Los Angeles. Her rise to fame and fortune is beautifully swift: she takes a writing course, is hired to write TV scripts, meets the right people, and very soon one of her screenplays has become a major motion picture, with Tracy as not only screenwriter but star.
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Last Summer
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Last Summer
The first novel by an essayist takes place in a Provincetown bed-and-breakfast, where a cast of gay men--in particular, a closeted actor and a famous producer--find romance while on vacation--and where a young local woman threatens to ruin everything.
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Time Flies and Other Short Plays
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Time Flies and Other Short Plays
This book of one-acts includes work culled from Ives's productions MERE MORTALS, which ran off-Boadway, and LIVES OF THE SAINTS, a hit in 2000, as well as uncollected plays. Ives is a winner of an Outer Critics Circle Playwrighting Award, and his night of one-acts, ALL IN THE TIMING, was celebrated as the most-produced play, after Shakespeare's, during the 1995-1996 season. Ives is known for his originality and biting wit.
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Dream Jungle
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Dream Jungle
In the 1970s, a young man named Zamora returns home from Yale to the Philippines and discovers an ancient cave-dwelling tribe in the explosive Mindanao region--and is suspected of falsifying his findings on behalf of the repressive government, which wants the area under surveillance. Zamora's story expands to include his relationship with his cook's beautiful daughter, his withdrawal from life, and the director of a film about Vietnam being made in the area. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Garbo Laughs
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Garbo Laughs
An Ottawa woman, along with many of the other characters in this novel (her son and daughter, her best friend, her aunt), is obsessed with movies. Peppered with movie references, best lists, and fan notes, GARBO LAUGHS has its own movie-like structure, as a couple of newcomers to the city, and a sudden onset of illness, propel the action to the climactic denouement.
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