The Retreat from Moscow

A Play About a Family

William Nicholson

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Random House USA Inc
23 March 2004

Plays & playscripts

EARLY ON SALE to coincide with the Broadway production.

The celebrated author ofShadowlands tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again.

""A finely perceptive, eloquently tender and exquisite new play."" -New York

How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it's time to be honest?

Is love enough to save a family?

Edward and Alice have been married for thirty-three years. He is

a teacher at a boys school, perfectly at home with his daily crossword and lately

engrossed in reading about Napoleon's costly invasion of Moscow. She is an observant

Catholic, exacting and opinionated, and has been collecting poems about lost love

for a new anthology. Jamie, their diffident thirty-two year old son, is visiting

for the weekend when Edward announces he has met another woman. With the coiled intensity

of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and the embracing empathy of Edward Albee's best

family dramas, The Retreat from Moscow shines a breathtakingly natural light on the

fallout of a shattered marriage.

By: William Nicholson
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 134g
ISBN: 9781400077632
ISBN 10: 140007763X
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 23 March 2004
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

WILLIAM NICHOLSON is the author of the play Shadowlands, which was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. He received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay for Shadowlands and has written numerous other screenplays as well as a forthcoming novel, The Society of Others, and a trilogy of children's fantasy adventure novels. He lives in London.

Reviews for The Retreat from Moscow: A Play About a Family

A finely perceptive, eloquently tender and exquisite new play. --John Simon, New York Riveting. . . . Subtle and powerful, [with] marvelous emotional complexity. --John Lahr, The New Yorker A tense family drama. . . . Spare, emotionally brutal. -- Time Out New York A truly devastating piece of theater. -- New York Daily News The best new play in twenty years. . . . This perfectly written masterwork shimmers with delicacy and precision. -- The Journal News