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In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo's exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. "We'll always know one another forever, however long ever is," Ritvo writes. "And that's all I want--is to know you forever." Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.
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Letters from Max, Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo, Elizabeth McCracken
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2019
- Reliure
- (souple)
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- Titre
- Letters from Max
- Sous-titre
- A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo, Elizabeth McCracken
- Éditeur
- Milkweed Editions
- Publié
- 2019
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 1571313753
- ISBN13
- 9781571313751
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Thèmes religieux, Thématique philosophique, Spiritualité et spiritualisme, Autobiographies et mémoires, Amitié, Journalisme littéraire, États-Unis, Littérature américaine, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Mort, Écriture, Amérique, Correspondance, Tristesse
- Évaluation
- 4,15 sur 5
- Description
- In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed--the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo's exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. "We'll always know one another forever, however long ever is," Ritvo writes. "And that's all I want--is to know you forever." Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.