William Styron

In the Clap Shack (eBook, ePUB)

A Play

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A military hospital is the setting for this darkly humorous play by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Darkness Visible and Sophie's Choice. In the summer of 1943, a young Marine named Wally Magruder arrives at a Navy hospital in the American South, stricken with what doctors diagnose as a severe case of syphilis. Trapped in the stifling confines of the urology ward, Magruder and his fellow patients rebel against the authoritarian Dr. Glanz, a physician who delights in the power that sickness gives him. But as they seek to reclaim their identities against dehumanization, the ward becomes a hell more real than any of them could have imagined. Inspired by Styron's own experience, In the Clap Shack is a searing indictment of military brutalization and a brilliant defense of individualism and personal freedom from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner and other acclaimed works. This ebook features new manuscripts, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the William Styron archives at Duke University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781453203026
• Artikelnr.: 37891170

Autorenporträt

William Styron (1925-2006), born in Newport News, Virginia, was one of the greatest American writers of his generation. Styron published his first book, Lie Down in Darkness, at age twenty-six and went on to write such influential works as the controversial and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Confessions of Nat Turner and the international bestseller Sophie's Choice.