Six Degrees of Separation

A Play

Author John Guare
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Paperback
$16.00 US
5.24"W x 7.97"H x 0.4"D  
On sale Nov 14, 1990 | 144 Pages | 9780679734819
Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
In this soaring and deeply provocative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the most important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart.

"Transcendent...magical...a masterwork that captures new York as Tom Wolfe did in Bonfire of the Vanities...[An] extraordinary high comedy in which broken connections, mistaken identities, and tragic social, familial, and cultural schisms...create a hilarious and finally searing panorama of urban America in precisely our time."--Frank Rich, The New York Times
John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie. The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of 1971 and received four Tony Awards in its revival at Lincoln Center in 1986. His screen play for Louis Malle's Atlantic City won the New York, Los Angeles, and National Film Critics Circle awards, as well as an Oscar nomination. Mr. Guare, a longtime council member of the Dramatists Guild, was elected in 1989 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York. View titles by John Guare

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In this soaring and deeply provocative tragicomedy of race, class, and manners, John Guare has created the most important American play in years. Six Degrees of Separation is one of those rare works that capture both the supercharged pulse of our present era and the deepest and most mysterious movements of the human heart.

"Transcendent...magical...a masterwork that captures new York as Tom Wolfe did in Bonfire of the Vanities...[An] extraordinary high comedy in which broken connections, mistaken identities, and tragic social, familial, and cultural schisms...create a hilarious and finally searing panorama of urban America in precisely our time."--Frank Rich, The New York Times

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John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation won the 1990 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, as well as the Hull Warriner Award and the Obie. The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of 1971 and received four Tony Awards in its revival at Lincoln Center in 1986. His screen play for Louis Malle's Atlantic City won the New York, Los Angeles, and National Film Critics Circle awards, as well as an Oscar nomination. Mr. Guare, a longtime council member of the Dramatists Guild, was elected in 1989 to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York. View titles by John Guare

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