And so it goes
George F. Walker · 2010
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About the book
Newly unemployed baby boomers Gwen and Ned appear to be completely different people: Gwen, a practical, down-to-earth Latin teacher; Ned, an impractical investment advisor constantly dreaming up new ventures for making money. But appearances can be deceiving, as their son Alex, who left home years ago, and their daughter Karen, recently diagnosed with schizophrenia, can attest. Unable to maintain the façade of their former middle-class lifestyle, Gwen and Ned search for a new life in vain, not realizing that they have become redundant--they speak dead languages. Both seek solace from the ghost of Kurt Vonnegut, but he can't help them in a world where the former universals of language and commerce no longer exist as foils for his sardonic humanism. Of all the voices she hears, those of her parents have become least relevant to Karen, because they seem to her to be concerned only with what they feel about their daughter's "condition," and not with what she is experiencing within that condition. "I'm scared," we hear Karen say as the play opens, and her fear is both justified and infectious.
Book details
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 127
- ISBN
- 9780889226548
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