Crimes of the Heart - Softcover

Henley, Beth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140481737 ISBN 13: 9780140481730

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1982

Synopsis

This Pulitzer Prize-winner is a deeply touching and funny play about three eccentric sisters from a small Southern town rocked by scandal when Babe, the youngest, shoots her husband. Humor and pathos abound as the sisters unite with an intense young lawyer to save Babe from a murder charge, and overcome their familys painful past. A BBC co-production.

A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Ray Baker, Donna Bullock, Arye Gross, Glenne Headly, Sondra Locke and Belita Moreno.

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Review:

Drama in three acts by Beth Henley, produced in 1979 and published in 1982. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. Set in a small Mississippi town, the play examines the lives of three quirky sisters who have gathered at the home of the youngest. During the course of the work the sisters unearth grudges, criticize each other, reminisce about their family life, and attempt to understand their mother's suicide years earlier. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140481737
• ISBN 13: 9780140481730
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 125