About this title: Based on Ernest J. Gaines National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel, A LESSON BEFORE DYING is set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young illiterate black man, is falsely convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, the plantation schoolteacher, agrees to talk with the condemned man. The disheartened Wiggins had once harbored dreams of escaping from his impoverished youth, yet he returned to his home town after university, to teach children whose lives seemed as unpromising as Jeffersons. The two men forge a bond as they come to ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Date Published: 1997
Description: Near Fine. A faint hint of shelf wear with a minor scar from a removed sticker to cover, otherwise Fine. No inscriptions. No underlining. No highlighting. Not ex-library. An excellent copy.; 8vo; 60 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780822216230ISBN:082221623X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780822216230ISBN:082221623X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780822216230ISBN:082221623X
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Edition: Revised Edition, Unknown Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780822216230ISBN:082221623X
Description: Good. Pages clean. binding tight. slight edge wear and denting. read more
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"Honestly, I think this is a very stupid play. I have read and watched it and I disliked it both times. The subject matter is tough to deal with (it involves the sexual abuse of a young girl by her uncle) but that is not so much the reason I don't like it. I feel that to write about difficult and disturbing events and people can be hard to read and watch but can have merit if it is for a purpose. I felt that this was merely to shock and disgust readers/viewers. The main character never seems to learn or change from her horrible experience. She describes it, talks about it, and the audience sees it all play out onstage but in the end none of the characters have any sort of character arc. There doesn't seem to be a purpose for her describing all of these events at all other than that the playwright assumed (as many unfortunately do nowadays) that to write about sex in a shocking manner would automatically make it fine literature."
"How I Learned to Drive is a play about a young girl growing up with a secret. No one knows this secret except her uncle. The secret is that her uncle is crazy in love with his niece. It's well written and very witty. This young girl's family is absolutely crazy and their dialogue is written in greek chorus style. There are small sililoquies throughout the entire play spoken by different members of the family. Laugh out loud funny! It drives the audience or reader to feel slightly uncomfortable and that is exactly what theater should do."
"Holy mackerel this was good. I'd never read Vogel before, but she has quickly become one of my favorite playwrights. She is able to portray heartbreaking events in this play and juxtapose them with a driving manual; not an easy task."
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