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In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo's exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. "We'll always know one another forever, however long ever is," Ritvo writes. "And that's all I want--is to know you forever." Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.
Acquisto del libro
Letters from Max, Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo, Elizabeth McCracken
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2019
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- Letters from Max
- Sottotitolo
- A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo, Elizabeth McCracken
- Editore
- Milkweed Editions
- Pubblicato
- 2019
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 336
- ISBN10
- 1571313753
- ISBN13
- 9781571313751
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Storie vere, Biografie, Temi religiosi, Tematica filosofica, Spiritualità e Religione, Autobiografie e memorie, Amicizia, Giornalismo narrativo, USA, Letteratura Americana, Giornalismo d’opinione & Saggi, Morte, Scrittura, America, Corrispondenza, Tristezza
- Valutazione
- 4,15 su 5
- Descrizione
- In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo's exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. "We'll always know one another forever, however long ever is," Ritvo writes. "And that's all I want--is to know you forever." Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.