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Smart People : A Play by Lydia R. Diamond (2016, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorthwestern University Press

ISBN-100810134640

ISBN-139780810134645

eBay Product ID (ePID)222675455

Product Key Features

Book TitleSmart People : a Play

Number of Pages120 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicAmerican / African American, Women Authors, General

GenreDrama

AuthorLydia R. Diamond

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-044885

Reviews"Seldom do contemporary American plays tap so directly into the cultural conversation as it's happening." -David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, "Writing with wit, verve, a shrewd eye for portraiture and an equally shrewd ear for the tells and giveaways of invidious racial assumptions, Diamond has created a quartet of complex, flawed, intriguing, and, yes, smart people." - Boston Globe, "Writing with wit, verve, a shrewd eye for portraiture and an equally shrewd ear for the tells and giveaways of invidious racial assumptions, Diamond has created a quartet of complex, flawed, intriguing, and, yes, smart people." -- Boston Globe, "Seldom do contemporary American plays tap so directly into the cultural conversation as it's happening." --David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal812/.6

SynopsisIn Smart People , Lydia R. Diamond shows that no matter how well we think we understand the influence of race on human interaction, it still manages to get in the way of genuine communication and connection. This funny and thought-provoking play gives us four characters all associated with Harvard: a young African American actress cleaning houses and doing odd jobs to pay the bills until her recently earned M.F.A. starts to pay off; a Chinese and Japanese American psychology professor studying race and identity in Asian American women; an African American surgical intern; and a white professor of neuroscience with a shocking hypothesis, researching the way that our racial perceptions are formed. As their relationships evolve, the four discover that their motivations and interpretations are not as pure as their wealth of knowledge would have them believe. As in all of her work, Diamond brings a sharp wit and a subtle intelligence to bear on questions that never cease to trouble us as individuals and as a society., In Smart People , Lydia R. Diamond shows that no matter how well we think we understand the influence of race on human interaction, it still manages to get in the way of genuine communication and connection. As in all of her work, Diamond brings a sharp wit and a subtle intelligence to bear on questions that never cease to trouble us as individuals and as a society.

LC Classification NumberPS3604.I1557S63 2016