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01790aam a2200337 i 4500 001 54333DC0DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 007 ta 008 990608t20201999xna 000 d eng d 020 $a 176062683X 020 $a 9781760626839 035 $a (OCoLC)1225069833 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d ATCDL $d OCLCF $d OKU $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a anuc 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3555.D759 $b W58 2020 082 04 $a 812.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Edson, Margaret, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Wit / $c Margaret Edson. 246 14 $i Cover title: $a W;t 264 1 $a Strawberry Hills, NSW : $b Currency Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 56 pages ; $c 20 cm 520 $a A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned specialist in the brilliantly difficult Holy Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: aggressively probing and intensely rational. But during the course of her illness ' and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy programme ' she comes to reassess her life and her work with profundity and an unbearably moving wry humour. 500 $a "Wit was first performed at the South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, California, on 24 January, 1995."--Page [i] 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American drama $y 20th century. 650 7 $a American drama. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00806998 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013538.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=54333DC0DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search