Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection.
Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended.
It is their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move unsteadily toward last things.
Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it.
Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended.
It is their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move unsteadily toward last things.
Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it.
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Hardback Editions
December 2007 : Hardback
| Title: Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Play Author(s): Don DeLillo ISBN: 0-7432-7305-2 / 978-0-7432-7305-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Scribner Book Company Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
February 2008 : Paperback
| Title: Love-Lies-Bleeding - Acting Edition Author(s): Don DeLillo ISBN: 0-8222-2213-2 / 978-0-8222-2213-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 2007 : Paperback
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April 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Love-Lies-Bleeding Author(s): Don DeLillo ISBN: 0-330-43955-3 / 978-0-330-43955-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Picador Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Play Author(s): Don DeLillo ISBN: 0-7432-7306-0 / 978-0-7432-7306-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Scribner Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2005 : Paperback
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Other Editions
August 2011 : Kindle edition
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January 2006 : Kindle edition
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