Search for books and compare prices on all major online booksellers with one click!

Home  About UsSuggest BookstoreRecommend Us 
    Title/Keywords ISBN  

Three Tall Women

AUTHOR: Edward Albee
ISBN: 0822214202
Compare Price


HOME--->> Literature & Fiction --->>Authors A-Z --->>Albee Edward
 
Albee Edward
         Editorial Review

Three Tall Women
- Book Review, by Edward Albee


From Publishers Weekly
Albee's drama of an old woman coming to grips with her life and approaching death earned him his third Pulitzer. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Booklist
Albee's best plays have always walked a line between heightened realism and dark comedy. Even his most surreal works are populated with characters who wouldn't seem out of place in real life. His 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner runs true to form. It begins as a naturalistic conversation among three women (identified as A, B, and C) from successive generations who meet in a hospital room. Each is undergoing a change from one life phase to another, and each faces her travails and disappointments with lots of Albee's trademark bitter wit. In the second act, however, the three women become representatives of the same person at different ages (26, 52, late 80s), and their bickering talk becomes a touching internal colloquy about life, love, and the inevitability of loss. Not since Beckett's brooding meditation Krapp's Last Tape has a playwright dealt so movingly with the subject of disappointment, aging, and death. Jack Helbig


Buy from Amazon     Compare Prices



         Book Review

Three Tall Women
- Book Reviews, by Edward Albee

Three Tall Women

ANNOTATION

Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for best play, as well as a number of other prestigious awards, Three Tall Woman has been called Albee's finest achievement. In his triumphant return to the New York and London stages, Albee demonstrates insight and vision with a moving look at mortality. "Stunning . . . nuanced and breathtaking."--Time.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for best play, as well as a number of other prestigious awards, Three Tall Woman has been called Albee's finest achievement. In his triumphant return to the New York and London stages, Albee demonstrates insight and vision with a moving look at mortality. "Stunning . . . nuanced and breathtaking".--Time.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Albee's drama of an old woman coming to grips with her life and approaching death earned him his third Pulitzer. (Sept.)


Buy from Barnes & Noble     Compare Prices



HOME  |  Recommend bookstore  |  Rate bookstore  |  Link to us  |  Report bug  |  Contact us
Copyright© 2003 - 2005, PowerBookSearch.com. All Rights Reserved.