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The Jacksonian. A Play.
Beth Henley
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Description for The Jacksonian. A Play.
Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 178.
In The Jacksonian, Beth Henley returns to the Southern Gothic storytelling that made her reputation with both critics and audiences. Set in a seedy motel in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, the play centers around Rosy, a troubled teenager, and Bill, her dentist father who has been living at the motel for several months as his wife, Susan, considers the disgrace of divorce. Fred, the motel bartender, and Eva, a waitress, are locked in a gruesome pact: he'll marry her if she agrees to help him evade punishment for a hideous crime. But Bill, turning to nitrous oxide to ease the ... Read more
In The Jacksonian, Beth Henley returns to the Southern Gothic storytelling that made her reputation with both critics and audiences. Set in a seedy motel in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, the play centers around Rosy, a troubled teenager, and Bill, her dentist father who has been living at the motel for several months as his wife, Susan, considers the disgrace of divorce. Fred, the motel bartender, and Eva, a waitress, are locked in a gruesome pact: he'll marry her if she agrees to help him evade punishment for a hideous crime. But Bill, turning to nitrous oxide to ease the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810130654
SKU
V9780810130654
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About Beth Henley
Beth Henley won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play for Crimes of the Heart (1978)and was nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplay based on the play. Her most recent plays include Sisters of the Winter Madrigal (2003) and Ridiculous Fraud (2007). Her screenwriting credits also include Nobody’s ... Read more
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