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Sons of the Prophet A Play

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ISBN-10: 0810128772

ISBN-13: 9780810128774

Edition: 2012

Authors: Stephen Karam, Jon Robin Baitz

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A deeply humorous, unflinching portrait of grief and loss, Sons of the Prophet depicts a Lebanese-American family in rural Pennsylvania beset by an absurd string of tragedies. At the play’s center is Joseph Douaihy, a once-promising world-class runner now sidelined by injury.  As Joseph confronts his deteriorating health, he is also forced to face the death of his father, an ailing Uncle, and a desperate boss beset by her own tragedies.  Deftly keeping its various storylines in careful balance, Karam’s play confronts, with abundant intelligence and great sympathy for human frailty, the inevitability of loss and the equally inevitable comedy resulting from our attempts to cope with is…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English