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Boleros for the Disenchanted and Other Plays

✍ Scribed by José Rivera

Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
113 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1559367288

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✦ Synopsis

Praise for Jose Rivera:

"Even if you've never seen Puerto Rico or grown old, you sit there ruminating on love, sacrifice, and betrayal."--Chicago Tribune , on Boleros for the Disenchanted

"Teasingly engrossing. . . . Vividly written. . . . An intriguing and evocative drama."--The San Francisco Chronicle , on Brainpeople

"Mr. Rivera's intimate play . . . uses historical fact as a frame to pose intriguing questions about what might have happened."--The New York Times , on School of the Americas

Three new works from Jose Rivera, a writer known for his lush language, open heart, and stylistic flirting with the surreal. Boleros for the Disenchanted is the moving story of the playwrights own parents: their sweet courtship in 1950s Puerto Rico, and then forty years later in more difficult times in America. With Brainpeople , Rivera explores the troubled minds of three women in a...

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