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In such critically acclaimed plays as The Dining Room and The Cocktail Hour, A.R. Gurney has wittingly captured the manners of upper-middle class WASP America, but never as gracefully or with such dazzling economy as in Love Letters. Tracing the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner, the story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written - and what is left unsaid - in their letters. A smash hit both off and on Broadway, Love Letters captures Andy and Melissa with a precision of detail and depth of feeling that only Gurney can command. Two other, thematically related plays by Gurney, The Golden Age and What I Did Last Summer, are included, providing a trio of wry and affectionate paeans to love lost, found, and fleetingly glimpsed.
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January 02, 2001: After seeing a very small part of this play on television, I took it upon myself to purchase this text so that I could read it in it's entirety. Was I impressed! Gurney, in the style of The Dining Room and several of his other works, carefully shows the strong and unconventional relationship between 2 upperclass east coasters. This was a fabulous play that I highly recommend.
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