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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The playwright from Oklahoma has moved his attention two states north, with a man who comes from Lincoln, NE. The play is about a man who suffers a crisis of faith and must learn to reconcile his strange new state. On the advice of his pastor, he takes a long trip away from wife and children, finding himself in London. The play is written reasonably well, and the characters are fleshed out and believably unlikeable. The main problem is the perpetuation of stereotypes that undergrid this work. The loss of faith will not be believable to those who have lost their faith, and the behavior of the man during his crisis of faith is designed to put the non-belief community in a bad light. In short, this is a story with a moral, but is so poorly executed that it will not touch the audience it is probably most directed toward. Also, the choice of making the man a Baptist probably speaks to the Oklahoma roots of the writer, and perhaps a slight bit of unfamiliarity with Nebraska, where Baptists are not all that common. Overall, it was disappointing, a bit slight, but not terrible. no reviews | add a review
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A luxury sedan, a church pew, a cafeteria table, a favorite TV show, and visits to a nursing home form the comfortable cycles of the dull daily life of middle-aged insurance salesman Ken Carpenter. Then one night, he awakens to find that he no longer believes in God. To the surprise of his very understanding (to a point) wife and his two grown daughters who think he has lost his mind, Ken decides to find himself and his faith by flying to London, where he was stationed while in the Air Force. He navigates through the new and somewhat dangerous realm of British counter-culture and ultimately finds his way back home. Tracy Letts's moving, funny, and spiritually complex play dares to ask the big questions, and by doing so, reveals the hidden yearning and emotion that spur the eccentric behavior of seemingly ordinary people. No library descriptions found. |
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"Do you ever look around? At the people around you, their habits and their things they do. The way they live, that we live. Do you ever think about the food we eat, and think about where the food comes from, where it goes? All the people" (20). ( )