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George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous.
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Intimate, prestige, spare and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Edward Albee
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- VINTAGE (RAND), Simon Schuster Trade, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 51
- Language
- Chinese, gre, German, und
- ISBN
- 9789575516857
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“Set in darkness.”
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