Jose Rivera
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The first collection of plays by one of the most moving and astonishing writers of the last 15 years. Though critics reflexively class his work as "magical realism," Rivera's extravagant, original imagery always serves to illuminate the gritty realities and touching longings of our daily lives. Also includes: Each Day Dies with Sleep and Cloud Tectonics.
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Surrealism, magic realism and expressionism are the hallmarks of Jose Rivera's influential body of work. This new volume collects the author's plays written in the past five years, including References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, Sueño and Sonnets for an Old Century, the author's most recent work, which recently premiered in Los Angeles.
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Three new works from José Rivera, a writer known for his lush language, open heart, and stylistic flirting with the surreal. Boleros for the Disenchanted is the moving story of the playwrights own parents: their sweet courtship in 1950s Puerto Rico, and then forty years later in more difficult times in America. With Brainpeople, Rivera explores the troubled minds of three women in a post-apocalyptic setting who feast on a freshly slaughtered tiger....
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Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera chronicles the story of a young woman's struggle to find an identity apart from the two men in her life: her father and her husband. Written in Rivera's typical satiric and super realistic style, this fantastical tragic-comedy leaps from coast to coast and from one outrageous moment to the next.
Pub. Date
[2010]
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"In Verona, Italy - the beautiful city where Romeo first met Juliet - there is a place where the heartbroken leave notes asking Juliet for her help. It's there that aspiring writer Sophie finds a 50-year-old letter that will change her life forever. As she sets off on a romantic journey of the heart with the letter's author, Claire, now a grandmother, and her handsome grandson, all three will discover that sometimes the greatest love story ever told...
13) Facing the enemy
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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A cold-blooded killer blames a detective for the death of his wife, so he seduces and plots to kill the detective's wife as retribution.
17) On the Road
Pub. Date
2013.
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Traveling cross-country, young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.