Far East - Softcover

A R Gurney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881451614 ISBN 13: 9780881451610

Publisher: Broadway Play Pub, 1999

Synopsis

"... this poignant new play is a welcome reminder of A R Gurney's gliding dialogue and structural elegance, as well as the troubled, rueful heart that informs all his work." Ben Brantley, The New York Times "A play that does everything right. The new drama by A R Gurney looks at who Americans were in the mid-1950s-a few Americans, anyway-and how they behaved out in those vast stretches of the world over which they had sway, and what their songs and movies and slang expressions and values were. The story centers on four U S Navy people (one a Navy wife) stationed at a base in Japan in 1954 and 1955...This subtle, tender play is, I think, Gurney's best work. It's John Cheever-meets-James Michener and it's a critical elegy for a long-vanished American view of life." Donald Lyons, New York Post "It is no coincidence that the movie playing at the overseas Officer's Club in A R Gurney's new play FAR EAST, is From Here to Eternity: the 1953 Pearl Harbor drama starring Burt Lancaster as a rugged Army sergeant who has a torrid affair with the restless wife of his commander ... [A] deliciously wry play ..." Amy Gamerman, The Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadway Play Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0881451614
• ISBN 13: 9780881451610
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 85