Man from Nebraska: A Play
Book Details
Author(s)Tracy Letts
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
ISBN / ASIN0810123479
ISBN-139780810123472
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,816,549
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A luxury sedan, a church pew, a cafeteria table, a favorite TV show, and visits to a nursing home form the comfortable cycles of the dull daily life of middle-aged insurance salesman Ken Carpenter. Then one night, he awakens to find that he no longer believes in God. To the surprise of his very understanding (to a point) wife and his two grown daughters who think he has lost his mind, Ken decides to find himself and his faith by flying to London, where he was stationed while in the Air Force. He navigates through the new and somewhat dangerous realm of British counter-culture and ultimately finds his way back home. Tracy Letts's moving, funny, and spiritually complex play dares to ask the big questions, and by doing so, reveals the hidden yearning and emotion that spur the eccentric behavior of seemingly ordinary people.








