Play, A Novel by Alan Singer

Play, A Novel by Alan Singer

Writer-director Pan Fleet plans a new experimental play for the off-Broadway stage: Killer Killing Killers, a montage of murder scenes, aiming to provoke his audience's ire with a work apparently amorally predicated on senseless violence. The plan is complicated by the intervention of his heart surgeon, who also fancies himself as a kind of director and by the surgeon's wife, an empathy-challenged child psychologist who clashes with Pan's leading lady.

The novel plays, so to speak, on the distinction between acting (doing something) and acting (playing a role). The narrative, which alternates between episodes of planning and rehearsing Pan's play and scenes that will be performed on opening night, presents a fiercely satirical staging of the problems we face whenever we attempt to do justice to other people's experience.

Alan Singer is the author of three previous novels, The Ox-Breadth (New Earth Books, 1978), The Charnel Imp (FC2, 1988), and most recently Memory Wax (FC2, 1996). He also writes on aesthetics and the visual arts, and he has just published Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos (Penn State University Press, 2003). Singer is professor of English at Temple University.

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ISBN 13	9781874400776
ISBN 10	1874400776
Title	Play, A Novel
Author	Alan Singer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Grand Iota
Year published	2020-09-30
Number of pages	272
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