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The Oldest Boy - by Sarah Ruhl (Paperback)

The Oldest Boy - by  Sarah Ruhl (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this moving exploration of parenthood, an American mother and a Tibetan father have a three-year-old son believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. When a Tibetan lama and a monk come to their home unexpectedly, asking to take their child away for a life of spiritual training in India, the parents must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength, their marriage, and their hearts. <p/><i>The Oldest Boy </i>is a richly emotional journey filled with music, dance, puppetry, ritual, and laughter--Sarah Ruhl at her imaginative best. A meditation on attachment and unconditional love, the play asks us to believe in a world in which sometimes the youngest children are also the oldest and wisest teachers.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Gorgeous . . . Extremely imaginative and hypnotically beautiful." --Marilyn Stasio, <i>Variety</i> <p/>"[An] emotional tsunami . . . An extraordinary story [from] a singular new voice in American theater." --David Rooney, <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i> <p/>"Ms. Ruhl's drama [<i>The Oldest Boy</i>] is among the most easily accessible from this poetic, venturesome playwright . . . It is marked by Ms. Ruhl's inquisitive intelligence, clean-lined eloquence and spiky humor." --Charles Isherwood, <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"Bewitching, ingenious and seriously moving." --Linda Winer, <i>Newsday</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sarah Ruhl</b>'s plays include <i>In the Next Room, or the vibrator play</i> (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee);<i> The Clean House</i> (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); <i>Passion Play, a cycle </i>(PEN American Award); <i>Dead Man's Cell Phone</i> (Helen Hayes Award);<i> </i>and, most recently, <i>Stage Kiss</i> and <i>Dear Elizabeth</i>. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, the Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN Center Award for a midcareer playwright, the Feminist Press's Forty Under Forty Award, and the 2010 Lilly Award<i>. </i>She is currently on the faculty at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.

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