The Vietnam Plays

Author: David Rabe
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0802133134

The Vietnam Plays: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel ; Sticks and Bones

David Rabe has been a major voice and crucial force in American drama since 1971 when, in the midst of the Vietnam War, he startled the nation with The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Get The Vietnam Plays literature books for free.
The story of a native recruit's initiation into war, it is by turns brutal and hilarious. It won the young playwright an Obie and was hailed by The New York Times as Arich humor, irony, and insight." More than two decades later, Rabe continues to be one of our most compelling dramatists, acclaimed most recently for the Tony Award-winning Hurlyburly.

In this, the first of two volumes of The Vietnam Plays, Pavlo Hummel is paired with the equally intense Sticks and Stones, in which a blinded Vietnam veteran returns home numbed by the war and is astonished by h Check The Vietnam Plays our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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