Nocturne A Play
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Nocturne A Play

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Full Title

Nocturne A Play
Author(s)

Adam Rapp
Edition
ISBN

9781429998253, 9780571211326
Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

A devastating, elegant, and gripping dissection of the American dream, Adam Rapp’s Nocturne signals a brave new voice in American theater.

“Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.”

So begins Adam Rapp’s highly acclaimed play Nocturne, in which a 32-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart.

With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, Rapp explores the aftershock of this unimaginable event. The father is so incapable of forgiveness he puts a gun in his son’s mouth; the mother so shattered, she deserts the family and eventually takes leave of her sanity altogether; the son–only 17 years old at the time–sets out for New York City. There, he seeks an uneasy refuge in books and reinvents himself as a writer. Across the decade and a half that follows he tries to cope with the ramifications of his own anguish and estrangement while making a desperate search for redemption.

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