The almond and the apple and the sugar from the maple

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Some days you go into a used book store and you do not leave with anything, which is fine.

And some days you go into a used book store and you leave with the first full English translation of Sholem Aleichem's Wandering Stars (1909), a pocket edition of H.D.'s Kora and Ka with Mira-Mare (1934), a new trade paperback of Theodore Sturgeon's Some of Your Blood (1961), and the Complete Plays of Sarah Kane (2001), which you were just discussing on Friday halfway up a mountain with schreibergasse's brother.

The latter is to be preferred.

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This may be a stupid question, but is Sarah's work much known in the US?

I don't think so. According to Dan (who is a dramaturge and director), Blasted wasn't even performed here until a few years ago; there was a staging of Phaedra's Love at Yale in 2005, but I don't know what that means for professional productions. 4.48 Psychosis seems to be the one everyone's heard of. The jumping-off point for Friday's conversation was my complaint that I couldn't find her collected plays in this country.

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After which, it was animated conversation for a mile between the two of them, while I walked along boggling at Kane's stage directions.

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After which, it was animated conversation for a mile between the two of them, while I walked along boggling at Kane's stage directions.

"The rats carry Carl's feet away."