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Product Description: David Rabe’s award-winning Vietnam plays have come to embody our collective fears, doubts, and tenuous grasp of a war that continues to haunt. Partially written upon his return from the war, Girl by the Road at Night is Rabe’s first work of fiction set in Vietnam—a spare and poetic narrative about a young soldier embarking on a tour of duty and the Vietnamese prostitute he meets in country...read more
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9781439163337 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, June 1, 2010), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: David Rabe’s award-winning Vietnam plays have come to embody our collective fears, doubts, and tenuous grasp of a war that continues to haunt.

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Product Description: Full Length, Drama / 11 m / Int. This volatile, incendiary drama premiered in 1976 under the direction of Mike Nichols, produced by Joseph Papp at New York's Lincoln Center. Revived in 2008 by the Roundabout Theatre, the third in author Rabe's quartet of "Vietnam Plays" is set in the Army barracks housing a group of young men, the "streamers" of the title: hapless parachutists who streak to certain death when their parachutes fail to open...read more
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9780394411200 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1977, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Set in army barracks in the early days of the Vietnam War, this powerful, award-winning play portrays the intertwined destinies of a group of soldiers

Paperback:

9780573640193, titled "Streamers: A Samuel French Acting Edition" | Samuel French Inc Plays, December 30, 2009, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Full Length, Drama / 11 m / Int.

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Product Description: In Dinosaurs on the Roof, acclaimed author and playwright David Rabe delivers a singular work that reaffirms his extraordinary range and talent, and introduces a story and a collection of characters whose genuine audacity will echo with readers for years to come...read more
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9781416564058 | Simon & Schuster, June 10, 2008, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: In Dinosaurs on the Roof, acclaimed author and playwright David Rabe delivers a singular work that reaffirms his extraordinary range and talent, and introduces a story and a collection of characters whose genuine audacity will echo with readers for years to come.

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9781416564065 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, August 11, 2009), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In Dinosaurs on the Roof, acclaimed author and playwright David Rabe delivers a singular work that reaffirms his extraordinary range and talent, and introduces a story and a collection of characters whose genuine audacity will echo with readers for years to come.

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Product Description: The Black Monk has been called a singular "collaboration" between two writers: Anton Chekhov and David Rabe. Based on Chekov's novella of the same name, Rabe's brilliant stage adaptation tells the story of Kovrin, the young philosophy student who returns from Moscow to the estate owned by Pesotsky, where he spent his youth...read more
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9781439141885, titled "The Black Monk / The Dog Problem: Two Plays" | Simon & Schuster, July 7, 2009, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Black Monk has been called a singular "collaboration" between two writers: Anton Chekhov and David Rabe.

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One of the nation's most celebrated playwrights turns to fiction in a collection of stories that explores masculinity, from men who find themselves engulfed in violence over an unsettled debt to a writer's confrontation with his Catholic past. Reprint.
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9780802118073 | Grove Pr, September 9, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories that explores masculinity, from men who find themselves engulfed in violence over an unsettled debt to a writer's confrontation with his Catholic past.

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9780802142771 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 10, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: One of the nation's most celebrated playwrights turns to fiction in a collection of stories that explores masculinity, from men who find themselves engulfed in violence over an unsettled debt to a writer's confrontation with his Catholic past.

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9780573629891 | Samuel French Inc Plays, March 31, 2004, cover price $6.25

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Product Description: In classic works such as Hurlyburly and Streamers, David Rabe's depictions of violence and the dark side of the human psyche have won him widespread acclaim. In Recital of the Dog, a painter who has left urban chaos for the country soon finds his hopes of tranquillity shattered by a marauding intruder-a dog that torments his small herd of cows...read more
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9780802114884 | Grove Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In classic works such as Hurlyburly and Streamers, David Rabe's depictions of violence and the dark side of the human psyche have won him widespread acclaim.

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9780802136589 | Grove Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In classic works such as Hurlyburly and Streamers, David Rabe's depictions of violence and the dark side of the human psyche have won him widespread acclaim.

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Product Description: David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists. In A Question of Mercy, he explores the controversial and emotional issue of euthanasia, delving deep into the ties that bind friends and lovers. Thomas and Anthony are lovers struggling with Anthony's final, exhausting battle with AIDS...read more
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9780822216438 | Dramatist''s Play Service, October 1, 1998, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: David Rabe is one of America's finest dramatists.
9780802135490 | Grove Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Presents the text of a play that focuses on two gay lovers, one in an exhausting battle with AIDS, and two friends who join together to help the man with AIDS end his life

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Product Description: Eight years ago, Mary and Freddy Gale's young daughter was killed by a drunk driver on her way home from school. The driver, a young man named John Booth, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Unable to absolve their own guilt, the Gale's marriage dissolves and Mary takes their two remaining children away from Freddy...read more
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9780786861194 | Hyperion Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of John Booth, a man convicted and sent to prison for killing a young girl while driving drunk, and the girl's father, who wants the ultimate revenge

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9781567401325 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 1996), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Eight years ago, Mary and Freddy Gale's young daughter was killed by a drunk driver on her way home from school.
9781561006014 | Brilliance Audio, September 1, 1995, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: John Booth, recently released from prison after serving time for vehicular homicide, is stalked by the father of the young girl he killed.
9781561002269, titled "Crossing Guard" | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 1, 1995), cover price $73.95 | About this edition: John Booth, recently released from prison after serving time for vehicular homicide, is stalked by the father of the young girl he killed.

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John Booth, recently released from prison after serving time for vehicular homicide, is stalked by the father of the young girl he killed.
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9781561003921 | Cssts edition (Brilliance Audio, August 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: John Booth, recently released from prison after serving time for vehicular homicide, is stalked by the father of the young girl he killed.

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Product Description: Full Length, Drama Characters: 4 male, 3 female Interior Set This riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon and Jerry Stiller...read more
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9780802133519 | Grove Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Full Length, Drama Characters: 4 male, 3 female Interior Set This riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon and Jerry Stiller.

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9780802115683 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 1995), cover price $25.01

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Product Description: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, which won the young David Rabe an Obie and was hailed by The New York Times as “rich in humor, irony, and insight,” is the story of a naive recruit’s initiation into war. Sticks and Bones concerns a blinded Vietnam veteran who, returning home numbed by the war, is astonished by his family’s inability to comprehend their country’s politics and his rage...read more
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9780802133137 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, which won the young David Rabe an Obie and was hailed by The New York Times as “rich in humor, irony, and insight,” is the story of a naive recruit’s initiation into war.

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Product Description: In this volume, Streamers, the story of a group of paratroopers desperately attempting to cope with the chaos of their emotions when they are ordered to Vietnam, is paired with The Orphan, a brilliant synthesis of classic Greek drama and the conflicted character of contemporary America...read more
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9780802133458 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In this volume, Streamers, the story of a group of paratroopers desperately attempting to cope with the chaos of their emotions when they are ordered to Vietnam, is paired with The Orphan, a brilliant synthesis of classic Greek drama and the conflicted character of contemporary America.

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Product Description: Full Length, Drama Characters: 4 male, 3 female Interior Set This riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon and Jerry Stiller...read more
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9780573619816 | Samuel French Inc Plays, January 31, 1993, cover price $6.25 | About this edition: Full Length, Drama Characters: 4 male, 3 female Interior Set This riveting drama took New York by storm in a production directed by Mike Nichols and starring William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Judith Ivey, Christopher Walken, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon and Jerry Stiller.

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9780802113924 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, June 1, 1991), cover price $16.95

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9780802132314 | Grove Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $8.95

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Depicts the disorderly existence of four men who inhabit a Los Angeles filled with drugs, post-Vietnam despair, and Hollywood hype, as they fight with the women they love and search for a purpose in life
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9780802132512 | Revised edition (Grove Pr, May 1, 1991), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Depicts the disorderly existence of four men who inhabit a Los Angeles filled with drugs, post-Vietnam despair, and Hollywood hype, as they fight with the women they love and search for a purpose in life

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9783907757208 | Osho Intl, September 1, 1988, cover price $6.95

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Product Description: A collection of riddles such as "What did the umpire say at the pancake house? Batter up."
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9780802112156 | Grove Pr, April 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of riddles such as "What did the umpire say at the pancake house?

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Product Description: The author of Hurlyburly again explores the struggle between hope and anguish in the human spirit in this story of two small-time jewel thieves united in a strangely unsettling friendship and the constant fight to prove to themselves and others how tough they are...read more
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9780802151933 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The author of Hurlyburly again explores the struggle between hope and anguish in the human spirit in this story of two small-time jewel thieves united in a strangely unsettling friendship and the constant fight to prove to themselves and others how tough they are.

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In the brutalizing, maddening, no-asylum night world of 1960s Philadelphia, go-go dancer Chrissy jerks, ponies, and stumbles her ill-fated way through a bizarre melange of family, suitors, and bar bums
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9780394553818 | Rev sub edition (Grove Pr, November 1, 1986), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In the brutalizing, maddening, no-asylum night world of 1960s Philadelphia, go-go dancer Chrissy jerks, ponies, and stumbles her ill-fated way through a bizarre melange of family, suitors, and bar bums

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9780802151940 | Revised edition (Grove Pr, November 1, 1986), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In the brutalizing, maddening, no-asylum night world of 1960s Philadelphia, go-go dancer Chrissy jerks, ponies, and stumbles her ill-fated way through a bizarre melange of family, suitors, and bar bums
9780573606472 | Samuel French Inc Plays, January 31, 1986, cover price $6.25 | About this edition: Full Length, Drama Characters: 6 male, 6 femaleExterior set, platform stage.

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9780670148813 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1973, cover price $7.95

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