A fascinating piece! A series of vignettes highlight the subject of this play, which is in fact a dining room. It's all dining rooms and it's fascinating how the playwright centers a series of mini-plays (each vignette us a very short play-trust me it works) around a dining room and the reader is enchanted with the dining room, what it represents, how it's used, ignored, cherished, and revered. Quite a stunning piece of theatre.
I learned more about astronauts on the first page of this book than I'd learned in the last 55 years of my life...and that's not even what the book is about! Atmosphere is a beautiful love story, told against the back drop of NASA and the space program. Full of interesting characters and several min-plot lines, it really boils down the fact that love can take you to the stars and back again! Superlative read!
A fascinating play. Poignantly examines a man's relationship to his father, but with some dark humor. Charlie returns to his father's home for his funeral and spends most of the lay chatting with the version of his DA that's in his head, with flashback scenes. Cleverly structured, it subtly examines guilt, our lack of seeing our parents as real people and relationships in general. Quite interesting.
I do love a good thriller...and this is a great thriller! Told from several points of view, this twisty and twisted thriller is faced faced, well plotted and has some fantastic characters! A really great read!
This book was given to me as a bit of a joke-based on the Golden Girls episode where the book is mentioned. It turns out, as Dorothy says "it's a hell of a book". Told simply, with Southern spun wisdom and charm, it is a great little biography. It only covers the first 30 years of Vanna's life and career, but both are quite packed! I think what makes Vanna so interesting to people is that what you see is what you get. She seems unflappable and takes whatever comes her way (good or bad) and processes it and moves on-this comes from her upbringing. The book is quite a sweet look at a sweet woman with "good old fashioned" values-quite refreshing really even if the book is 39 years old!
Re-read this one because it's being revived on Broadway this season and a colleague and I were discussing it. Still don't care for it. Not my favorite Miller play, by a long shot. I know I'm in the minority on this, but I don't care for any of the people in the play. No mater how many times I've read this, no matter what age I am or how much life I've experienced, I just can't find an "in" to this piece.
It is always an absolute jot to spend time with Veronica Speedwell and Stoker and the ever interesting cast of supporting characters in this series. The historical settings, the clever plots and the brilliant sniping between Veronica and Stoker make these mysteries fascinating and fun. A Perilous Undertaking flourishes with the addition of Lady Wellie and some frank discussions of orgies and sexual peccadilloes!
