Let Me Down Easy (TCG Edition)

ISBN: 1559365463

Author: Smith, Anna Deavere

Condition: New

Pulitzer-nominated playwright Anna Deavere Smith's incisive work on health care in America."[An] engrossing collection of testimonials about life, death and the care of the ailing bodyMs.Smith has created avivid compendium of life experienced at its extremes, drawn about equally from the suffering and the ministering sides of the story. -New York TimesEach vignette-there are twenty in all-is rich enough for an entire play, which is probably the point: Every person contains multitudes. -VarietyCompiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smiths Let Me Down Easy is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying. The speakers Smith inhabits include healthcare professionals, theologians, artists, athletes, and activists. They speak of the body as a battleground, a tool, a weapon, a joy, a burden. Smiths great gift has always been her ability to break down her subjects defenses and present them in their full, complicated beauty. Whether channeling Lance Armstrong, Lauren Hutton, Peter Gomes, or others who are not in the public eye, Smith reminds us again and again that in learning to die we learn to live.