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Carregando... Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Play (edição: 2006)de Don DeLillo
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. My first play. I've never read a play before (since Shakespeare at school) so this was a new experience and required a bit of adjustment. I can't say I'm a new convert from having read this though. It was very short, less than 100 pages, and fairly atmospheric, with the darkened ares of the room and the lifeless man in a wheelchair. Only three other characters play parts - the man's young wife, an older ex-wife and his estranged son. Each has their own reasons for being there but they are to do with love, not inheritance, which made a pleasant change. The central discussion revolves around euthanasia. The man is obviously terminally ill and I was rooting for them to put him out of his misery. The young wife, however, is against the idea, even though she is the one nursing him full time. There are also flash-backs to earlier times, when the man, an artist of some repute, spoke of his life and thoughts, and love of desert plants. All in all, rather abstract. Interesting. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection. Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended. It is their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move unsteadily toward last things. Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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