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Rapp, Adam

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ISBN 10: 0881453110 ISBN 13: 9780881453119

Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated, 2004

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A son is pushed beyond his limits by his father who wants him to be a great pianist. Then there is an accident in which his sister is killed. He leaves for New York where he becomes a novelist. Fifteen years later he returns home. "'There's a finality in fact,' says the narrator of Adam Rapp's grief-laden monologue NOCTURNE, a stunning confrontation with truth that spares neither the character or the audience. The fact, simply stated, is this: 'Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.' So says a young man identified only as the Son, who accidentally decapitates his sibling in an auto accident and then attempts to come to terms with what he has done. This reconciliation forms the heart and soul of NOCTURNE, a startling, unnerving work of art that fiercely pushes the boundaries of theater. The play ... is dense, almost novelistic, in its approach to a personal horror story. NOCTURNE ... is also intensely lyrical, musical in its sounds and in its silences. Make no mistake. Rapp is an original - a distinctive voice unafraid to be too descriptive ..." -Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press "Rapp uses subtle, sensuous, bold and funny language ... So detailed and poetic is the writing ... that we buy and are powerfully moved by the whole thing." -Donald Lyons, New York Post

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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play Nocturne, in which a thirty-two-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the tragic events that tore his family apart.

With a keen eye for human relationships and a deft ear for language, Rapp explores the aftershock of this unimaginable event. The father is so incapable of forgiveness he puts a gun in his son's mouth; the mother so shattered, she deserts the family and eventually takes leave of her sanity altogether; the son -- only seventeen years old at the time -- sets out for New York City. There, he seeks an uneasy refuge in books and reinvents himself as a writer. Across the decade and a half that follows he tries to cope with the ramifications of his own anguish and estrangement while making a desperate search for redemption.

A devastating, elegant, and gripping dissection of the American dream, Nocturne signals a brave new voice in American theater.

Adam Rapp is the author of numerous plays and young adult novels. He lives in New York City.

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Adam Rapp is the author of numerous young adult novels, including 33 Snowfish, Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, and The Buffalo Tree, which was the inspiration for his off-Broadway play The Metal Children. Adam Rapp has also written for TV (The L Word, In Treatment) and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2006. He lives in New York City.

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PublisherBroadway Play Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date2004
ISBN 10 0881453110
ISBN 13 9780881453119
BindingPaperback
Number of pages48
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