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Other Desert Cities (2011)

by Jon Robin Baitz(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0802145655 (ISBN13: 9780802145659)

languge

English

genre

Picture Books

publisher

Grove Press

review 1: The playwright presents vivid and interesting characters in a play with quite a surprise ending. The moral I guess, is that we shouldn't let ourselves define others by their political positions or we risk not seeing them as people. I can't help thinking, however, that the surprise ending seemed to make all the issues that the play had raised earlier to not matter and led to a "happy" ending which otherwise might have been impossible.
review 2: The more I read brilliant plays the more I know that I don't have what it takes to write one. Not that I won't. Not that I'll never have what it takes but damn, playwrights are good at what they do. The dialogue is crisp and flawless. The characters jump right out of the book and into my living room (just ask my neighb... moreors, who had to listen through the walls as I read this). The story moves with ferocity towards it's inevitable end in a way that is impossible to bear and deeply satisfying. It makes me want to act and direct and see more plays.*Note: When I read plays, I read them aloud and you should too! less

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