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Gum and The Mother of Modern Censorship
Karen Hartman
Gum
by Karen Hartman
Highlights
Synopsis
In Karen Hartman’s "juicyfruit tragedy," two young sisters discover new appetites within the walls of their father’s garden.
Gum explores the need to tame nature in a fictional fundamental country where the title candy is contraband and every desire has its price.
"A brief, intense, beguiling, sensual, witty, impassioned, deeply moving and brightly burnished gem"—
San Francisco Examiner.
Also includes The Mother of Modern Censorship
.
Karen Hartman is the author of Girl Under Grain, Troy Women and Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl.
She is a native of San Diego who lives in Brooklyn and is currently the playwright-in-residence at Princeton University.
Publication
Publisher Theatre Communications
Year 2002
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 120
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9781559362139
ISBN-10 1559362138
eISBN-13 9781559368261
LCCN 2002007440
LCC PS3608.A7874 G86 2003
DCC 812/.6
Gum is a American play written by Karen Hartman and published by Theatre Communications in New York (2002).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9781559368261).
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