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The Red Barn - (Faber Drama) by David Hare (Paperback)

The Red Barn - (Faber Drama) by  David Hare (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Hitchcock would approve." - <i>The Times</i> (UK) <br></br>"A dark story of dissolving identity... Mesmeric." - <i>Observer</i></b> <br></br>Connecticut, 1969. On their way back from a party, two couples struggle home through the snow. Not everyone arrives safely. <br></br>The great detective writer Georges Simenon escaped France at the end of World War Two, and arrived in the USA to start again. With his American wife, he settled at Shadow Rock Farm in Lakeville. Years later, he wrote <i>La Main</i>, a psychological thriller set in a New England farmhouse. David Hare has taken this novel, and forged from it a startling new play.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Hare</b> is a playwright and filmmaker. His stage plays include <i>Plenty, Pravda</i> (with Howard Brenton) <i>Racing Demon, Skylight, Amy's View, Via Dolorosa, Stuff Happens, South Downs, The Absence of War</i> and <i>The Judas Kiss</i>. His films for cinema and television include <i>Wetherby, The Hours, Damage, The Reader, </i> and the Worricker trilogy: <i>Page Eight, Turks & Caicos</i> and <i>Salting the Battlefield</i>. He has written English adaptations of plays by Pirandello, Chekhov, Brecht, Schnitzler, Lorca, Gorky and Ibsen. For fifteen years he was an Associate Director of the National Theatre. He lives in London with his wife, the fashion designer, Nicole Fahri.

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