| The Spark and Fire of It Contributor(s): Soto, Gary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1622881729 ISBN-13: 9781622881727 Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Nonfiction | Performing Arts - Theater & Musicals |
| Dewey: 892.8 |
| LCCN: 2021351667 |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.21 lbs) 80 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Love is a good thing--so true in The Spark and Fire of It, this classic one-act romance: two young people smitten to the point of delirium and a gruff father who will have none of it. The father sees his daughter's suitor only as a penniless lad with nothing to offer. But the young woman's mother sees her own husband in the young man, remembering a time when he, too, was an empty-handed suitor. Add internal complications: the young women questions her own judgment, and the young man is tempted by a hooligan called Rascal. Then there is Old Gentleman, who, like a befuddled Socrates, understands this thing called love. The romance contains poems that begin with a line of Shakespeare that Soto artfully extends into his own original poetry. The dialogue is written in the vernacular of Elizabethan times--though occasionally it falls into contemporary street slang. The code switching reminds readers that love is a human experience that makes the young go crazy no matter the century |