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Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Play Paperback - 2006

by Don Delillo


Summary

Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection.

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.

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.

Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it.

First line

Alex and Lia, one year before the main action of the play.

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  • Title Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Play
  • Author Don Delillo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition. F
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York City, NY
  • Date 2006-01-01
  • ISBN 9780743273060 / 0743273060
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.54 x 5.1 x 0.35 in (19.15 x 12.95 x 0.89 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Terminally ill, Euthanasia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005042581
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/01/2005, Page 14
  • Library Journal, 11/15/2005, Page 67

About the author

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including White Noise, which was made into a Netflix film, Libra, Underworld, Falling Man, and Zero K. 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 The Angel Esmeralda 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.
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