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  • Margaret Edson

4.33

3 ratings

This play is about a professor who finds out she has stage four ovarian cancer. She realizes through her ordeal that she has no friends to fall back on, no family to support her. Over time she befriends the nurse that is taking care of her, and as her cancer treatment progresses she finally realizes the futility of success if there is no one to love.

Genres

  • Drama
  • Cancer in women
  • Women college teachers
  • English teachers
  • Terminally ill
  • Psychology
  • Modern Literature
  • Faculty
  • Ovarian Neoplasms
  • Fictional Works
  • Neoplasms
  • Women
  • American drama (dramatic works by one author)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses
  • American drama, history and criticism
  • American
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About the author

  • Margaret Edson

    born 1961

    4.33

    3 ratings · 5 works

Editions

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    Tandem Library

    April 2002

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    Nick Hern Books

    2000

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    Dramatists Play Service

    1999

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    a Division of Farrar Straus and Giroux

    Faber and Faber, Inc.

    1999

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1 edition

Faber & Faber

March 29, 1999

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    1st ed.

    Faber and Faber

    1999

  • Edition cover

    1st ed.

    Faber and Faber

    1999