{"product_id":"love-lies-bleeding-a-play-paperback","title":"Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Play - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Delillo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove-Lies-Bleeding\u003c\/i\u003e, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move unsteadily toward last things. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, \u003ci\u003eLove-Lies-Bleeding\u003c\/i\u003e explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a Netflix film, \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 7.54 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761490002208,"sku":"9780743273060","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9496a461ebd58f1a14230bc5263248de.webp?v=1780208772","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/love-lies-bleeding-a-play-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}