The Shrike
by Kramm, Joseph
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1952). First Edition. Hardcover. [lower corners lightly bumped, tiny crack in top edge of front cover; jacket age-toned (typical with RH published plays of this era), browned and lightly stained along spine, a couple of tiny tears and edges and corners]. (B&W photographs) Pulitzer Prize-winning drama (the playwright's first produced play), set in the mental ward of a city hospital, about a theatre director who's been driven crazy -- literally -- to the verge suicide by his bitter, manipulative estranged wife, who's a complete sweetheart to everybody else but him. Jose Ferrer and Judith Evelyn played the not-at-all happy couple in the original Broadway production; Ferrer directed and starred in the 1955 film adaptation, opposite June Allyson (playing very much against type). .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26672
- Title
- The Shrike
- Author
- Kramm, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1952)
- Keywords
- Marriage, Insane Asylums, Theatre And Plays, Movie Source
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