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Veronica's Room and Other Dramas: Dr. Cook's Garden, Interlock, and Veronica's Room
Ira Levin's trio of dramatic plays includes Veronica's Room, a chilling psychological drama that explores the thin line between reality and madness. This beautiful new edition includes an introduction by Nicholas Levin.
Is Susan Susan--a self-possessed 1970s college student--or Veronica, a conflicted young lady of 1935, desperately believing herself to be a later Susan? What begins as a seeming mission of mercy leads to a terrifying crisis of self-doubt.
Presented here for the first time in omnibus form are three of Ira Levin's dramatic stage plays--by turns tense, dark, thought-provoking, and always engaging: the biting Interlock, the contentious Dr. Cook's Garden, and the mind-bending Veronica's Room.
Featuring new introductions by the author's son, Nicholas Levin
Book Details
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date: Feb 4th, 2025
- Pages: 444
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 1.10in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9798212642743
- Categories: • American - General
About the Author
Nicholas Levin is the creator of the IraLevin.org special features Rosemary's Baby Album and Building Stepford Wives.
The genre-defining works of novelist-playwright Ira Levin (1929-2007) include such indelible titles as Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil, and Deathtrap--the fifth longest-running play in Broadway history. At home in nearly every genre--horror (Rosemary's Baby), crime (Edgar-winning A Kiss Before Dying), science fiction (This Perfect Day), comedy (No Time For Sergeants), even a Broadway musical (Drat! The Cat!)--Levin's enduring works continue to resonate with readers and audiences, serving as iconic cultural and creative touchstones. Learn more at Levin's official website, IraLevin.org.
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Praise for this book
"Part morality play, part suspense thriller, part comedy."
-- "New York Times on Dr. Cook's Garden""Theatrical excitement...[with] moments of effective menace."
-- "New York Post on Dr. Cook's Garden""Unforgettable, breath-stopping suspense and high drama."
-- "New York Herald-Tribune on Dr. Cook's Garden""Suspense and goose pimples."
-- "New York Daily News on Dr. Cook's Garden""A study in dependence and dominance...manipulation of emotion and the truth...Quite entertaining."
-- "Baltimore Sun on Interlock""Vastly superior to what we have been having. It is an intelligent melodrama...I found Interlock a continuously entertaining study in corruption by logic, with something of the acid view of the sex-and-power struggle that marks a number of the better plays from Europe."
-- "Washington Evening Star on Interlock""The eternal triangle takes on an exciting new flavor in Interlock...This is the story of the struggle of two women over one man...The suspense is built honestly...A well-constructed play."
-- "Wilmington News-Journal on Interlock""High-voltage moments."
-- "Wilmington Morning News on Interlock""Good thrillers keep us on the edge of our seats, simply because we do not know what's going to happen next, nor could we ever have imagined what actually does. On both these points playwright Levin scores 100 percent."
-- "Washington Post on Veronica's Room""Like being trapped in someone else's nightmare...Jarring and [with a] surprising climax...A neat, elegant thriller."
-- "Village Voice on Veronica's Room""Ira Levin has a devious mind. In Veronica's Room...he coolly unravels a nightmare of deception so corrupt that each layer peeled away reveals a new and surprising abomination. As he did in his popular thriller Deathtrap, Levin plays a crafty game of psychology, pitting conventional reality and morality against an insidious force of mind-bending guile and rampant depravity."
-- "Los Angeles Times on Veronica's Room"