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The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer
The Normal Heart And The Destiny Of Me
by Larry Kramer
Awards & Recognition
Lucille Lortel Award Obie Award Pulitzer Prize
Winner! 1993 Lucille Lortel Award, Best Play of the Year Winner! Two 1993 Obie Awards Finalist: 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
Synopsis
The Normal Heart
, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that helped kill an entire generation.
It has been produced and taught all over the world.
Its companion play, The Destiny of Me
, is the stirring story of an AIDS activist forced to put his life in the hands of the very doctor he has been denouncing.
Themes Patients
Press Reviews
"Bitter and angry and full of the biting humor that comes not from a joy of life but from trying to make the best of it."
— Wall Street Journal
"May be the most comprehending, and certainly the most comprehensive, AIDS play so far."
— New York Magazine
"This play will stand as a memorial to the personal force of a single man and to a fearful trauma in American life."
— Newsweek
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Nurse Hanniman |
| Dr Anthony Della Vida |
| Alexander Weeks |
| Richard Weeks |
| Rena Weeks |
| Benjamin Weeks |
| Ned Weeks |
Publication
Publisher Grove Press
Year 2000
Binding Paperback
Edition 1st Grove Press ed
Pages 256
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780802136923
ISBN-10 0802136923
eISBN-13 9781555846688
LCCN 24177
LCC PS3561.R252 N6 2000
DCC 812/.54
The Normal Heart And The Destiny Of Me is a American lgbtq play written by Larry Kramer and published by Grove Press in New York (2000).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9781555846688).
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