Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows

Joy Ride throws open the stage door and introduces readers to such makers of contemporary drama as Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Wallace Shawn, Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Mike Nichols, and August Wilson. Lahr takes us to the cabin in the woods that Arthur Miller built in order to write Death of a Salesman; we walk with August Wilson through the Pittsburgh ghetto where we encounter the inspiration for his great cycle; we sit with Ingmar Bergman at the Kunglinga Theatre in Stockholm, where he attended his first play; we visit with Harold Pinter at his London home and learn the source of the feisty David Mamet's legendary ear for dialogue.

In its juxtaposition of biographical detail and critical analysis, Joy Ride explores with insight and panache not only the lives of the theatricals but the liveliness of the stage worlds they have created.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/21/2015
ISBN: 9780393246407
Pages: 592
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.90d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2015 pg. 61
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2015
Publishers Weekly 06/22/2015
Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 98
Booklist 08/01/2015 pg. 15
New York Times Book Review 12/06/2015 pg. 75
Library Journal 04/15/2015