| The Peasants' Bible and the Story of the Tiger Contributor(s): Fo, Dario (Author), Jenkins, Ron (Translator), Taviano, Stefania (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0802140696 ISBN-13: 9780802140692 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2005 Annotation: Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world's most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive wit and unusual linguistic experimentation into a comedy of complete originality. The Peasants' Bible is a collection of five monologues drawn from Italian folklore but filtered through Fo's delightfully singular lens-for example, an Adam and Eve who are passionately entwined like peas in a pod; a race between two classes of men struggling for power that resembles the legend of the Hare and the Tortoise-to form a Bible of the common man. In The Story of the Tiger, we find a Fourth Army soldier injured fighting Chiang Kai-shek's army, saved from starvation by being suckled by an enormous tiger, who then comes back to defeat Kai-shek by using model tigers in combat. Together the pieces are an extraordinary addition to Fo's body of work. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Fiction |
| Dewey: 853.914 |
| LCCN: 2004051806 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.56" W x 8.28" (0.49 lbs) 175 pages |