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Title: ONE HAND CLAPPING
By: Anthony Burgess, Lucia Cox
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £10.99


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ISBN 10: 1474253822
ISBN 13: 9781474253826
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 13 April, 2015
Series: Modern Plays
Pages: 80
Synopsis: Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world.Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening. But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop. And what he sees as the logical conclusion to his success isn't something Janet can agree to. Burgess's 1961 darkly comic satire of drab English consumerism is adapted for the stage by Lucia Cox. This edition was published to coincide with the US premiere at the Brits Off-Broadway Festival, at 59E59 Theatre, New York, in May 2015.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Returns: Non-returnable
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