Bøger af Stanley Bennett Clay

"Honest and unsettling." -L.A. Times "A brilliant shocker of a play." -Drama-logue "Clay's poetic, image-filled rhythmic language gives this play texture and richness." -Daily Breeze "This tremendously risky play confounds all stereotypical assumptions." -Chicago Tribune "Sets black upper crust L.A. on its ear." -L.A. Sentinel "An emotional roller coaster ride." -L.A. Weekly "If you're into denial, stay home." -Entertainment Today NAACP Theatre Award Drama-logue Award L.A. Times Critics' Choice L.A. Weekly Pick-of-the-Week Set in the 1980's, this award-winning and controversial four-character domestic drama explores the dysfunctional dynamics at work beneath an affluent African-American family's appearance of perfection. The husband & father, a lawyer, is in denial about his family crisis, and is equally detached from his ethnic soul. The wife & mother, a former actress, is on the verge of alcoholism and is threatened by her cunning daughter in the home and perhaps the bedroom. The brilliant and brooding young gay son, at odds with his father, leaves his Ivy League college to come home and save his family...by any devastating means necessary.

Los Angeles has no ghettos, according to some. And that is nearly true. But even behind the sun-kissed facade of privilege in its Black upper middle class is a harsher reality. In Search of Pretty Young Black Men is the tale of Dorian Moore, a mysterious and seductive young man who provides comfort to the moneyed, the neglected, the lost, and the lonely in an elegant hilltop community in Southern California. Among the women is Maggie Lester-Allegro, who, disillusioned by a loveless marriage, finds support in her small circle of women friends and sexual healing in Dorian's arms. The blessing brought by this pretty black man soon becomes a fatal curse, as terrible truths come to light. Maggie's husband, Lamont, seeks sexual solace outside of their picture-perfect marriage as well. He lives in the shadow of his larger-than-life father, a member of the Baldwin Hills gentry, and under the weight of secrets and lies that threaten to tumble the walls of his carefully guarded life and standing among the elite. This stunning new novel, by the author of Diva, is a poetically rendered, provocative, and revealing tale that challenges every notion of what we believe equals success, prestige, and, most of all, love.