The Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts Contributor(s): Wilson, Edmund (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374526664 ISBN-13: 9780374526665 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
Dewey: 812 |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 4.98" W x 7.98" (0.46 lbs) 163 pages |
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Publisher Description: Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts from the leading literary critic of his generation, Edmund Wilson The characters in Little Blue Light include an old-fashioned newspaperman who has become editor of a literary magazine and is making his last stand for liberalism; his brilliant, egoistic wife, who is at once intensely ambitious and dissatisfied with everything she gets; a neurotic returned expatriate, who has found out how to exploit his neurosis by writing; the editor's twenty-six year-old secretary, who represents everything most admirable in the prep school and college tradition till he is subjected to the pressure of the contemporary world; and a mysterious moralizing gardener of indeterminate nationality. This horrifying satirical play is a study of American types and a comment on social tendencies. It has something of the author's Memoirs of Hecate County, something of the late George Orwell's 1984, and something of Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Edmund: - Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. |