6 Best plays books like Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays (NHB Modern Plays) by Kenneth Lonergan

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Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Kenneth Lonergan

4.04

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Described as 'America's greatest living playwright' (Wall Street Journal), Kenneth Lonergan is inte…

If you liked the plays plot in Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays (NHB Modern Plays) by Kenneth Lonergan , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

By: Christopher Durang

3.96

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Nominated for six Tony Awards®, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and b… read more

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2. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

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"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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3. The Kentucky Cycle

By: Robert Schenkkan

4.35

Format: 104 pages,

In this series of nine short plays, Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Robert Schenkkan has create… read more

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4. True West

By: Sam Shepard

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

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5. A Visit from the Goon Squad

By: Jennifer Egan

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more

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6. Tape

By: Stephen Belber

4.34

Format: 196 pages,

Jon, an aspiring filmmaker on the verge of hitting it big, hooks up for the weekend with his best f… read more

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7. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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8. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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9. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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10. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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11. Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more

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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"You were describing people we had not yet met, maybe people we ourselves would become."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."

-Hua Hsu, Stay True

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12. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

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"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

Cover of Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays (NHB Modern Plays) by Kenneth Lonergan

13. Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Kenneth Lonergan

4.04

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Described as 'America's greatest living playwright' (Wall Street Journal), Kenneth Lonergan is inte… read more

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14. Beginning

By: David Eldridge

3.53

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

You didn't fancy it then? Fancy what? Getting in the taxi. No. Every story starts somewhere. … read more

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19 Best fiction books like Prima Facie by Suzie Miller

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

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David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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John Boyne

4.33

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