Danger: Memory! Two Plays: I Can't Remember Anything; Clara

Miller, Arthur

ISBN 10: 0394561023 / ISBN 13: 9780394561028

Published by The Grove Press, New York, 1987

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Unread book, tight, square corners, first edition stated, full numberline 10-1. Dustjacket (priced at $14.95), no flaws. Book shipped well packed in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Danger: Memory! Two Plays: I Can't Remember Anything; Clara
• Publisher: The Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394561023
• ISBN 13: 9780394561028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • ABE

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Synopsis

The first play, I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING, is a gentle, poignant study of two old friends, an elderly man and woman, who live in nearby houses and often take their meals together. She is a wealthy widow whose life seems to have come to a stop after her husband's death; he is a retired draftsman, a doctrinaire Communist who was her husband's best friend despite the radical differences in life styles and political outlook. Both lament the passing of better days, the lack of contact with loved ones, and the loss of memory that clouds the meaningfulness of the time left to them. (1 man, 1 woman.) The second play, CLARA, is a powerful and moving drama in which an aging father is forced to come to grips with the crushing reality of his daughter's senseless murder. Grilled relentlessly by a dispassionate detective, the father is unable to bring his memory into focus until, in the trenchant monologue recalling a disquieting incident from his wartime experience, the past suddenly clarifies the present and, relieving the father's tortured conscience, unlocks the damning evidence the detective has been seeking. (3 men, 1 woman.)