
Play, A Novel
Alan Singer(Author)
Grand Iota (Publisher)
Published on 30. September 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-874400-77-6 (ISBN)
Description
Writer-director Pan Fleet plans a new experimental play for the off-Broadway stage: Killer Killing Killers, a montage of murder scenes, aiming to provoke his audience’s ire with a work apparently amorally predicated on senseless violence. The plan is complicated by the intervention of his heart surgeon, who also fancies himself as a kind of "director" and by the surgeon’s wife, an empathy-challenged child psychologist who clashes with Pan’s leading lady.
The novel plays, so to speak, on the distinction between acting (doing something) and acting (playing a role). The narrative, which alternates between episodes of planning and rehearsing Pan’s play and scenes that will be performed on opening night, presents a fiercely satirical staging of the problems we face whenever we attempt to do justice to other people’s experience.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
331 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-874400-77-6 (9781874400776)
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Alan Singer is the author of five previous novels, most recently The Inquisitor's Tongue. He also writes about aesthetics and the visual arts. He is professor of English and a member of the MFA faculty in fiction at Temple University.