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02928aam a2200373 i 4500 001 1E0322B878F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200610t20202020scu b s001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020940352 020 $a 1643361112 020 $a 9781643361116 020 $a 1643361104 020 $a 9781643361109 035 $a (OCoLC)1157821137 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d VRC $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PS3612.E887 $b Z64 2020 082 04 $a 812/.609 $2 23 100 1 $a Fahy, Thomas Richard, $e author. 245 10 $a Understanding Tracy Letts / $c Thomas Fahy. 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b The University of South Carolina Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 134 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Understanding contemporary American literature 520 $a "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama as well as Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor, Tracy Letts has emerged as one of the greatest playwrights of the twenty-first century. In the first critical overview of Letts' theatrical oevre, Thomas Fahy contextualizes each of the plays, exploring his treatment of themes from disability to conspiracy and Native American identity to troubled masculinity. Understanding Tracy Letts is an introduction to the plays and an invitation to engage with them as moving works of art and incisive commentary on contemporary working- and middle-class American life. Chapters focus on Killer Joe; Bug; August: Osage County; Mary Page Marlowe; and Linda Vista, Superiority Donuts, and Man from Nebraska. The book also provides brief coverage The Minutes (which premiered at Steppenwolf in 2017 and will open on Broadway in 2020) and Letts' decision to write the screenplay for The Woman in the Window (premiering in 2020 and adapted from the bestselling novel of the same title by A. J. Finn)"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [115]-128) and index. 505 00 $g ch. 6 $g ch. 1 $t Troubled Masculinity and Aging White Men in Linda Vista, Superior Donuts, and Man from Nebraska. $g ch. 2 $t Disability and Poverty in Killer Joe, The Glass Menagerie, and As I Lay Dying -- $g ch. 3 $t Conspiracy Theories and Lost Children in Bug and The X-Files -- $g ch. 4 $t Food, Culinary Justice, and Native American Identity in August: Osage County -- $g ch. 5 $t Mary Page Marlowe and the Patchwork of Personal Identity -- $g ch. 6 $t Troubled Masculinity and Aging White Men in Linda Vista, Superior Donuts, and Man from Nebraska. 600 10 $a Letts, Tracy, $d 1965- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Letts, Tracy, $d 1965- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01914884 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Understanding contemporary American literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030025.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1E0322B878F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search