The Little Flower of East Orange

by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Overview

When Therese Marie arrives in the emergency room of a small hospital in the Bronx, suffering from hypothermia and in shock, no one there knows her story. To the doctors and nurses, she is just another abandoned elderly woman who can't even tell them her name. But Therese Marie's dementia is not all that it seems. And when her prodigal son, Danny, returns to New York, Therese Marie must fight to maintain her dignity in light of her son's insistence on confronting the ugly secrets of their past.

In this unconventional family drama, Stephen Adly Guirgis gives us a mother and son who must face a long family legacy of abuse in order to find the true meaning of grace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865479012
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	02/03/2009
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,072,307
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Stephen Adley Guirgis is an actor and playwright. A member of the LABrynth Theater Company and the MCC Playwrights Coalition, Guirgis is the recipient of new play commissions from South Coast Repertory and The Manhattan Theatre Club.  He is the author of the plays Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the A Train, In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, all published by Faber. He lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

Exudes the heat of true emotional conviction.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Gets under your skin in a way that tidier dramas don't often manage.” —Frank Schenk, New York Post

“Searing . . . Guirgis has never had a problem locating pain's funny bone.” —Rob Kendt, Newsday

“Guirgis's raw talent—his ability to flat-out Write—remains as luminous as ever.” —Jeremy McCarter, New York

“Deeply felt and at times startling in its bruising intimacy.” —David Rooney, Variety

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