A Primitive Heart: Stories - Hardcover
One of the nation's most celebrated playwrights turns to fiction in a collection of stories that explores masculinity, from men who find themselves engulfed in violence over an unsettled debt to a writer's confrontation with his Catholic past.
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Playwright Rabe (Hurlyburly, etc.), in this collection, navigates the troubled lives of men set adrift by economic hopelessness, traumatic childhoods and their own inability to connect. The narrator of the title story becomes obsessed with the development of his unborn child, even as he drifts further apart from his strong-willed wife. "Veranda" describes both the failed beginning of a new relationship and a failed attempt to make amends to a child for the end of an old one. "Holy Men" and "Some Loose Change" stand out as powerful evocations of contemporary manhood, the former in a successful writer's fraught reunion with the Catholic priest who mentored him, the latter through the attempts of a group of boozy dot-com casualties to even an old financial score. "Early Madonna," the only story with a female protagonist, features an aging club kid attempting to escape the shadow of her brainy younger sister. Abstracted inner monologues and minute descriptions sometimes come at the expense of pacing and dialogue in these often multi-chaptered first-person stories, and the solipsism of Rabe's emotionally immature characters blinds them to the reality of their interaction with others. But these stories;occasionally tedious but also marked by strikingly good observational prose;perceptively sketch the experiences of 21st-century misfits.
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- PublisherGrove Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0802118070
- ISBN 13 9780802118073
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. Pristine, clean & tight copy, unread in NEW condition. Signed by David Rabe on title page. "A PRIMITIVE HEART is not only an exhibition of David Rabe's acclaimed dramatic powers but also proof of his narrative magic. Here are six riveting stories in which characters are pulled by the rip tide of circumstances beyond comfort and predictability into murky and treacherous waters."---Billy Collins. "As the characters play hide-and-seek with themselves, we're forced to come out of hiding to shift our own positions and philosophy. Rabe has a way of implicating the reader---of creating a near-claustrophobic bond with his restless characters, writing so convincingly that the subtext becomes almost palpable, accruing darkly, like a storm. Okay: I'm eating my heart out."---Ann Beattie. New, perfect copy, quite presentable & collectible. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # RUB947
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