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Beth Henley

Författare till Crimes of the Heart

26+ verk 923 medlemmar 12 recensioner 2 favoritmärkta

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Foto taget av: Beth Henley with Ron Rash
at the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books
Copyright © 2007 Ron Hogan

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freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |
Perhaps I would have liked this play a bit more if I had seen it on the stage. The craziness of these 3 sisters from Mississippi felt a little tired to me, a bit too stereotypical, while the problems they were facing were in some cases so serious that the characters' attitudes struck me as incredible - something aped from the late 19th century or from the old TV show "Designing Women" instead of from real life.

Listened to this play via streaming courtesy of LATW website
 
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leslie.98 | 7 andra recensioner | Apr 5, 2020 |
A fairly straightforward play. I'm not quite sure how this won the Pulitzer Prize, as I did not really witness anything extraordinary or amazing. Overall, the characters felt somewhat real but they also suffered from, in my opinion, a bit of overacting and overbearing in regards to the reader.

3 stars.
 
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DanielSTJ | 7 andra recensioner | Aug 3, 2019 |
A southern family faces a crisis when one of the sisters shoots her husband. This happens before the play begins; the bulk of the play is less about the shooting than about the relationships between the three girls, with a couple of other factors thrown in for complexity. Difficult to find too many people in this group to like, or to feel sympathy with, but there is still the ability to engage as you watch people losing all touch with reality and moving toward destruction. The ending is ambiguous and unresolved; that is not a complaint, as I often find that compelling in a dramatic work. It's hard to see this as a masterpiece, but it is definitely past competent, with the various threads skillfully woven, though a few stitches are dropped in the weaving.… (mer)
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26
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Medlemmar
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Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
12
ISBN
45
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