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Peter Flannery - Burnt by the Sun - 9781848420441 - V9781848420441
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Burnt by the Sun

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Description for Burnt by the Sun Paperback. Colonel Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence. Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 110.

A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov.

General Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence. Amidst a tangle of sexual jealousy, retribution and remorseless political backstabbing, Kotov feels the full, horrifying reach of Stalin's rule.

Peter Flannery's play Burnt by the Sun was first ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848420441
SKU
V9781848420441
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Peter Flannery
Peter Flannery was writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1979-1980. His plays first staged by the RSC include Singer, which originally starred Antony Sher, and won the Time Out Best Play Award in 1989, and was subsequently revived by the Oxford Stage Company in 2004, starring Ron Cook; Our Friends in the North, winner of the 1982 ... Read more

Reviews for Burnt by the Sun
'A cracker... starts out like something by Chekhov and ends up as a gripping Stalinist thriller... Funny, affecting and taut with suspense, Burnt by the Sun is a new play that already feels like a classic'
Telegraph
'A brilliant playwriting achievement... a wonderful panoramic view of a family and its misfortune with an inexorable, gruesome dramatic tread'
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Goodreads reviews for Burnt by the Sun


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