Reasons to Be Pretty: A Play - Softcover

LaBute, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865479984 ISBN 13: 9780865479982

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

Synopsis

In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face and his own girlfriend Steph's lack thereof get back to Steph. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationships crumble, the four friends are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity, and betrayed trust in their journey to answer that oh-so-American question: How much is pretty worth?

Neil LaBute's bristling new comic drama puts the final ferocious cap on a trilogy of plays that began with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig. America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating work.

About this title

About the Author:

Neal LaBute's most recent works for the stage include This Is How It Goes (Faber, 2005) and Fat Pig (Faber, 2004), which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off Broadway Play.

Review:

“Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days.” ―Ben Brantley, The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0865479984
• ISBN 13: 9780865479982
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 129