Seconds of Pleasure by Neil Labute

Seconds of Pleasure by Neil Labute

In Seconds of Pleasure, acclaimed award-winning director and playwright Neil LaBute, brings to the page his cutting humor and compelling take on the shadowy terrain of the human heart. Best known for his controversial plays and films, his short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Playboy. Seductive and provocative, each potent and pithy tale in Seconds of Pleasure finds men and women exploiting -- or at the mercy of -- the hidden fault lines that separate them: In “Time Share,” a woman leaves her family at their vacation home after discovering her husband in a compromising situation; a middle-aged man obsesses over a scab on the calf of a pretty young girl in “Boo-Boo”; and a vain Hollywood actor gets his comeuppance in “Soft Target.” LaBute infuses Seconds of Pleasure with his trademark wit and black humor, and unleashes his imagination in stories that offer unflinching insight into our very human shortcomings and impure urges with shocking candor.

Neil LaBute is a dramatist, screenwriter, and film director from the United States. Seconds of Pleasure, Dirty Weekend, My America, Some Girl(s), Some Velvet Morning, Stars in Shorts, The Wicker Man, The Shape of Things, Possession, Your Friends & Neighbors, and In the Company of Men are among his film writing credits. His Broadway-produced drama, reasons to be gorgeous, debuted Off-Broadway and won the Broadway.com Audience and Favorite New Play Awards (Lyceum Theatre). The Money Shot, Reasons to be Happy, The Break of Noon, In a Dark Dark House, and Fat Pig (Lucille Lortel Theatre), Wrecks and This Is How It Goes (Anspacher Theater), The Distance From Here (Duke on 42nd Street), and The Mercy Seat (Acorn Theatre) are among the Off-Broadway plays. Helter Skelter (Gaslight Theater), In a Forest, Dark and Deep (Vaudeville Theatre), and Things We Said Today (Profiles Theatre) are among the regionally presented works.

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ISBN 13	9780802142122
ISBN 10	0802142125
Title	Seconds of Pleasure
Author	Neil Labute
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2005-10-06
Number of pages	240
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