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Master novelist DeLillo revels in the concentration of theater. His third play, a pared-down drama, centers on Alex, a vital man until a massive stroke leaves him in a vegetative state. His young wife, Lia, props him up each day in a wheelchair, and she is joined in her vigil by Toinette, a previous wife, and Sean, Alex's only child. Harboring dark and suspect feelings about his father, Sean asks, isn't Alex's life over? Shouldn't they help him die? As Alex sits unreachable in a strange purgatory, his three contentious loved ones remember his love of nature, including the poignantly named desert plant love-lies-bleeding. Toinette recalls Alex saying of life, "It's all one running creation," and certainly death is part of it. But is euthanasia an act of mercy when the person in question is beyond communication? If so, for whom, the living or the dying? DeLillo's haunting play explores the fear, love, and anger attendant upon one of the most confounding decisions we face as individuals and as a society. Donna Seaman
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Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection.
Master novelist DeLillo revels in the concentration of theater. His third play, a pared-down drama, centers on Alex, a vital man until a massive stroke leaves him in a vegetative state. His young wife, Lia, props him up each day in a wheelchair, and she is joined in her vigil by Toinette, a previous wife, and Sean, Alex's only child. Harboring dark and suspect feelings about his father, Sean asks, isn't Alex's life over? Shouldn't they help him die? As Alex sits unreachable in a strange purgatory, his three contentious loved ones remember his love of nature, including the poignantly named desert plant love-lies-bleeding. Toinette recalls Alex saying of life, "It's all one running creation," and certainly death is part of it. But is euthanasia an act of mercy when the person in question is beyond communication? If so, for whom, the living or the dying? DeLillo's haunting play explores the fear, love, and anger attendant upon one of the most confounding decisions we face as individuals and as a society. Donna Seaman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection.
Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended.
It is their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move unsteadily toward last things.
Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it.
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