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Scarinci, John

 
9780595383993: Going Home: An AIDS Odyssey
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ISBN 10 : 0595383998 ISBN 13 : 9780595383993
Editeur : iUniverse, 2006

Synopsis

Going home on an Easter Sunday, Andrew Lazar must confront his distant and embittered father, Jimmy Lazar, a one-time talented minor league baseball player and Vietnam vet whose foot was amputated during the war. Although he is now recuperating from a serious heart attack, Jimmy Lazar has never recovered from his antagonism towards his son for disappointing him. His own bitterness and anger isolate him from everyone including his wife.While Andrew Lazar faces these demons, he must also struggle against his own. At a time when AIDS sufferers fought against the dual enemies of disease and ignorance, he loses one war while he achieves victory in the other. And while transcending his own suffering, he paradoxically offers his parents a chance to reform their lives as well.Going Home is a play about many things. It is a play about AIDS, a play about popular and unpopular wars, about shattered dreams and even about baseball. But most importantly, it is not all fiction. It is dedicated to one Paul Severino because it chronicles, in many ways, his real life struggles. His heroism inspired this play as it must all those who believe in the human determination to survive and prevail over suffering.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Going home on an Easter Sunday, Andrew Lazar must confront his distant and embittered father, Jimmy Lazar, a one-time talented minor league baseball player and Vietnam vet whose foot was amputated during the war. Although he is now recuperating from a serious heart attack, Jimmy Lazar has never recovered from his antagonism towards his son for disappointing him. His own bitterness and anger isolate him from everyone including his wife.While Andrew Lazar faces these demons, he must also struggle against his own. At a time when AIDS sufferers fought against the dual enemies of disease and ignorance, he loses one war while he achieves victory in the other. And while transcending his own suffering, he paradoxically offers his parents a chance to reform their lives as well.Going Home is a play about many things. It is a play about AIDS, a play about popular and unpopular wars, about shattered dreams and even about baseball. But most importantly, it is not all fiction. It is dedicated to one Paul Severino because it chronicles, in many ways, his real life struggles. His heroism inspired this play as it must all those who believe in the human determination to survive and prevail over suffering.

Biographie de l'auteur

John Scarinci has taught English for over thirty years both on the high school and college level. Born in Brooklyn, he moved to Floral Park, New York as a teenager and continues to live on Long Island with his wife, Florence and their children. Going Home, his first play, parallels to a great degree the life of his cousin Paul Severino whose courageous fight against AIDS helped to dispel many of the misconceptions about this disease. John Scarinci is presently working on an historical novel based on the life of William Shakespeare.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595383998
ISBN 13 
9780595383993
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
76
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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