Equus
$20.75
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2007
Summary
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When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike, he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment. Dr. Dysart is the man given the task of uncovering what happened the night Strang committed his crime, but in doing so will open up his own wounds. For Dysart struggles to define sanity, and justify his marriage, his career, and his life of normality; ultimately he must ask himself: is it patient or psychiatrist whose life is being laid bare?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188904 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141188901 |
| Author: | Peter Shaffer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 90g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 6mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
“Remarkable…a psychiatric detective story of infinite skill.”
– Walter Kerr, “The New York Times”
About The Author
Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer was born in Liverpool in 1926. Among his plays are The Salt Land (1954), Equus (1973) which won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Play as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and Amadeus (1979) which won the Evening Standard Drama Award and the Theatre Critics Award for the London production.
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