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A stunning first play about an academic attempting to come to terms with cancer. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and made into an Emmy-award winning feature film starring Emma Thompson.
Vivian Bearing, a specialist in the Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: probing and rational. During the course of her illness, she reassesses her life and work with profundity and wry humour.
Vivian Bearing, a specialist in the Sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to her illness is not unlike her approach to Donne: probing and rational. During the course of her illness, she reassesses her life and work with profundity and wry humour.
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An original and urgent work of art. Among the finest plays of the decade. --Wall Street Journal
A dazzling and humane play you will remember until your dying day. --New York Magazine
A brutally human and beautifully layered new play. You will feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted. --New York Times
About the Author:
A dazzling and humane play you will remember until your dying day. --New York Magazine
A brutally human and beautifully layered new play. You will feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted. --New York Times
Margaret Edson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1961. She has degrees in history and literature. She wrote Wit in 1991, after a period spent working as a clerk in the oncology/AIDS department of a Washington hospital in 1985. Edson now lives in Atlanta, where she teaches kindergarten.
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- PublisherDemco Media
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0606209956
- ISBN 13 9780606209953
- BindingPaperback
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