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Polish Joke and Other Plays
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Title: Polish Joke and Other Plays
Author: David Ives
ISBN: 9780802141309
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All In The Timing: Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes. Nine-year-old Midwesterner Jan Bogdan Sadlowski, nicknamed, Jasiu, is told by his uncle that Poles are thought to be" backward, stupid, inept, and gloomy." The only way out is for Jaisu "to impersonate someone not Polish." Don Juan In Chicago, called in which a Renaissance innocent makes a deal with the devil only to become a reluctant Latin lover. Ancient History, this comedy-drama about the holy war that breaks out when two people from two very different cultures fall in love. The Red Address, the searing portrait of a man with a secret who is forced by tragedy into self-revelation.
Author: David Ives
ISBN: 9780802141309
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All In The Timing: Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes. Nine-year-old Midwesterner Jan Bogdan Sadlowski, nicknamed, Jasiu, is told by his uncle that Poles are thought to be" backward, stupid, inept, and gloomy." The only way out is for Jaisu "to impersonate someone not Polish." Don Juan In Chicago, called in which a Renaissance innocent makes a deal with the devil only to become a reluctant Latin lover. Ancient History, this comedy-drama about the holy war that breaks out when two people from two very different cultures fall in love. The Red Address, the searing portrait of a man with a secret who is forced by tragedy into self-revelation.
