Your Friends and Neighbors [Paperback]

Neil LaBute (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 30, 1998

Your Friends & Neighbors is a searing display of the war between the sexes, delivered with the kind of wit used by the great Restoration playwrights to expose the hypocrisies in male/female relationships.

Neil Labute's debut feature, in the company of men, was described by Variety as "a dark, probing, truly disturbing exploration of yuppie angst and male anxieties". In Your Friends & Neighbors, male anxiety is again on show, but in a much wider context, revealing the rabid desire of people-regardless of sex- to serve their own interests at any cost.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The work of an original filmmaker who takes no prisoners." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"A brutally funny sex comedy." --Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

About the Author

Neil LaBute lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Faber & Faber (October 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0571197914
• ISBN-13: 978-0571197910
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #698,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Neal LaBute's most recent works for the stage include This Is How It Goes (Faber, 2005) and Fat Pig (Faber, 2004), which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off Broadway Play.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A funny, distubing look at relationships in the '90's., October 9, 1998

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This review is from: Your Friends and Neighbors (Paperback)

Neil Labute, writer and director of last years In The Company of Men, succeeds again in capturing the sad and darkly funny depths of mental anguish and abuse of love and sex in the '90's. Here he brings us a tale of unhappy suburban couples searching in vein for satisfaction and destroying each other in the process. Labute crafts an air of dialog that makes you laugh and look on in disgust all at once-the equivilance of a literary car crash, so horrifying yet you slow down to watch anyway.