Mr. Universe: And Other Plays
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"One of the most intelligent writers working today." --Kaye Gibbons With three critically acclaimed works of fiction --Winter Birds, Dream Boy, and My Drowning --Jim Grimsley established himself as a gifted, accomplished novelist. The Philadelphia Inquirer called him "one of the finest Southern novelists to appear in a long, long time." Now, with these four plays, collected for the first time, Grimsley shows that he is, as Romulus Linney puts it in his introduction, "a writer of many seasons." Here is award-winning drama that peers into the nature of human conflict. From the gritty streets of New Orleans, where a muscle man is rescued by two drag queens, to a prison cell, where Jesus is interrogated by his ambitious disciple, Grimsley's plays ask what happens when divergent worlds converge. Each play challenges us to view otherwise opposing worlds and characters not in terms of how they contrast but in terms of what they have in common. Collected together, they form a powerful body of work by a talented and important writer--one who was awarded the Bryan Prize for Drama by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and was named Newsday 's George Oppenheimer's Best New American Playwright. A STAGE AND SCREEN BOOK CLUB Selection
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1565122119
ISBN13:9781565122116
Release Date:November 2016
Publisher:Algonquin Books
Length:270 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Wonderful style and suspense till the end!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Once again Jim Grimsley has a way of grasping your attention to a story making you read as fast as you can. These plays are wonderful and really stay with you as you wonder why characters did certain things. Especially after I finished reading Mr. Universe, I still had so many unanswered questions. I got so pulled into the story that I could imagine the muscle man standing there in front of me. Jim Grimsley has a wonderful talent as an author and regardless of your background all of his books are wonderful!! His writing style is fantastic and his books are never predictable. He has a way of describing things in such detail that while you are reading one of his books you actually think you hear the characters talking out the words. Keep up the great writing and I will be looking for the next book of yours soon!
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