Wit: A Play - Couverture souple

Edson, Margaret

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571198775 ISBN 13 : 9780571198771

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Edson Margaret

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A celebrated but exacting professor of metaphysical poetry, endeavouring to cope with experimental and aggressive treatment for an equally aggressive illness. A towering academic caught between metaphysics, medicine and her own mettle.

Confined to a hospital bed, with her life nearing its final chapter and the memory of her academia past as her coping mechanism, Vivian Bearing discovers grace, forgiveness and above all, her true self, in the nick of time.

Pulitzer-prize winning WIT is a striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love.

Julie Hesmondhalgh plays Vivian in this 2015 revival of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize winner, seen at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A stunning first play about an academic attempting to come to terms with cancer. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and made into an Emmy-award winning feature film starring Emma Thompson.

Vivian Bearing, a specialist in the Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: probing and rational. During the course of her illness, she reassesses her life and work with profundity and wry humour.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0571198775
• ISBN 13: 9780571198771
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 96