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Letters From Max: A Poet, A Teacher, A Friendship

by Sarah Ruhl

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A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018 In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted ... Read more
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018 In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. Over the next four years - in which Ritvo''s illness returned and his health declined, even as his productivity bloomed - the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo''s exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. We''ll always know one another forever, however long ever is," Ritvo writes. "And that''s all I want - is to know you forever." Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife." Less

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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 1.64 in
Print pages336
PublisherMilkweed Editions
Publication date September 20, 2019
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781571313751
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Sarah Ruhl
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Sarah Ruhl received the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2004 for her play "The Clean House," which has been produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, S...

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