All the Rage by Martin Moran

All the Rage by Martin Moran

A moving and surprisingly funny memoir about finding the right balance between anger and compassion

"Why aren't you angry?" people often asked Martin Moran after he told his story of how he came to forgive the man who sexually abused him as a boy. At first, the question pissed him off. Then, it began to haunt him. Why didn't he have more anger? Why had he never sought redress for the crime committed against him? Was his fury hidden, buried? Was he not man enough? Here he was, an adult in mid-life, with an established acting career, a husband. A life. And yet the question of rage began to obsess him.

As the narrative jumps from dream to memory to theory, from Colorado to New York to Johannesburg, Moran takes us along on his quest to understand the role of rage in our lives. Translating for an asylum seeker and survivor of torture, he wonders how the man is not consumed with the wrong done him, only to shortly thereafter find himself in a wild confrontation with his fuming stepmother at his father's funeral. He admires a pedestrian's furious put-down of a careless driver, and then, observing with a group of sex therapists at an S&M dungeon, he finds himself unexpectedly moved by the intimacy of the interchanges. Hiking the Rockies with his troubled younger brother, he's confronted by the anger and the love that seem to exist simultaneously and in equal measure between them.

With each encounter, we move more deeply into the human complexities at the heart of this book- into how we wrong and are wronged, how we seek redress but also forgiveness, how we yearn to mend what we think broken in us and liberate ourselves from what's past. It is in this landscape of old wounds and complicated loves that Moran shows us how rage may meet compassion and our traumas unexpectedly open us to the humanity of others.

Martin Moran makes a life in New York City as an actor and writer. Titanic, Cabaret, Bells Are Ringing, and Floyd Collins are just a few of the Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in which he has appeared. He won an Obie Award in 2004 for his one-man show The Tricky Part, which was commended by New York Times theatrical critic Ben Brantley for its quiet win in rendering turmoil with such clarity. Moran continues to tour the country with The Tricky Part.

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ISBN 13	9780807086575
ISBN 10	0807086576
Title	All the Rage
Author	Martin Moran
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Beacon Press
Year published	2016-05-17
Number of pages	232
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