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From the award-winning author and screenplay writer, a trio of one-act plays depicting the spooky, strange, and tragic passage of guests through the same New York City hotel room (number 603). “The dialogue has the evocative spareness of Pinter, and [the] control of mood [is] menacing, mesmerizing.” -- The tangible mystery of these stories is grounded in the peculiar relationships that unfold slowly, producing an unrelenting uncanny atmosphere. In each play, a family member has recently died and the survivors are left to deal with the consequences. Written for David Lynch''s 1993 drama “Gifford’s night people are a strange mix of utter weirdness and bedrock humanity, rampant eccentricity, and absolute individuality. Some things in life are beyond analysis, and Barry Gifford is one of them. --
About the author
BARRY GIFFORD is the author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. Gifford began his career as a poet and musician. His most recent prose works are
The Roy Stories, Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves, and
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac. His most recent poetry collection is
Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems (2012). Gifford lives in the San Francisco area.
