LIBROS DEL AUTOR: allan havis

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  • Architects of the Taj Mahal
    Allan Havis
    ARCHITECTS OF THE TAJ MAHAL traces three architects: India’s Mir Abdul Karim, Las Vegas’ Roseanne L’Anse , and New York’s Rex Heuermann.Their lives contrast the sublime Taj Mahal and Trump’s Taj Mahal Resort Casino. L’Anse and Heuermann, unknown to one another, both worked for the Trump Organization. Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to preserve the memory of his fa...
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    11,59 €

  • Maddie Q
    Allan Havis
    A young California woman, Maddie Crawford, falls headlong into the world of QAnon. Her beliefs take her to to the Capitol, attending the Stop the Steal Rally on January 6th, and later enmeshed in the violence that followed.Maddie returns to San Diego, imagining that the local school board is about to indoctrinate children in critical race theory. Her solution is to commit an ac...
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    11,70 €

  • Haut Gout
    Allan Havis
    An intriguing thriller in Haiti, showcasing an American doctor who experiments with a new infant feeding formula and along the way is coerced by CIA operatives to treat the commanding Haitian General who has only a few months to live. '... Havis's web of ironies - the lure of the rational Gold to the spiritual, decadent Le Croix; a mission of life turned to one of death; assas...
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    15,80 €

  • A Jew On Ethiopia Street
    Allan Havis
    A promising Ethiopian soccer star in Israel is courted by an American sports agent. The athlete is involved with another Ethiopian who risks being deported. Meanwhile, there is also a reckless, clandestine operation afoot to airlift one last group of Falasha Jews from Ethiopia to Israel.'In 1996, Israel announced a blood shortage and urged its citizens to give generously. The F...
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    17,41 €

  • Morocco
    Allan Havis
    A psychological drama that focuses on three characters - an American Jewish architect, his half-Arab banker wife, and a Moroccan colonel. MOROCCO begins with the ten-day arrest of sophisticated Abril Kempler, a banker working with her architect husband in Fez, Morocco. The ordeal involves a complex game between the Colonel running the jail and the Jewish American architect. Hav...
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    17,44 €

  • Mink Sonata
    Allan Havis
    Offbeat drama of a mother, father, and adult daughter living together inside an upscale Manhattan apartment. Daughter plays a cello and has a personality disorder. Her alter ego seduces her father who is a political media guru. Mother is conflicted in how to stop this awful charade.'The family under observation in Allan Havis’s MINK SONATA has affluence and political influence ...
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    17,11 €

  • Hospitality
    Allan Havis
    An interrogation tale inspired loosely by the detention of Colombia’s Patricia Lara in the mid-1980s. Two INS agents detain and try to break a Latin American journalist and a Brooklyn rabbi - both suspects believed to be involved with terrorist groups. The interrogations go very badly and the tables are turned against one of the INS agents.'... To say that HOSPITALITY by Allan ...
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    17,33 €

  • Arrow To The Heart
    Allan Havis
    An urban family of three is faced with a medical crisis upon a second financial crisis. Structured as a memory play, this story for four actors highlights the surfacing identify of a young man caught between filial loyalty and freedom. As the mother attends to both men, a domineering father is in free fall.'One young man’s experience of grief and loss. A fraught father-son rela...
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    17,20 €

  • Private Parties
    Allan Havis
    A kinky, deranged comedy built on the sale of a vintage Ford Mustang and an unidentified body in the car. Two women meet and against their better judgment cross the border into Mexico for an unusual resort weekend. 'Allan Havis, who co-directs the playwriting program at U C S D, earned his reputation for mordant wit and chilling dramatic climaxes everywhere but San Diego. Now,...
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    15,90 €

  • The Tutor
    Allan Havis
    This stark, disquieting drama depicts the eleventh-hour effort of a hired tutor to transform the life of a very bright, self-destructive teenager before a Columbine tragedy occurs in San Diego. '... the disquieting drama visits a shockingly dysfunctional family and its truly troubled teen ... The tables turn several times in this intense, suspenseful one-act ... Especially int...
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    15,88 €

  • Cult Films
    Allan Havis
    Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression looks at nine decades of cult films history within American culture. By highlighting three films per decade including a brief summary of the decade’s identity and sensibility, the book investigates the quality, ironies, and spirit of cult film evolution. The twenty-seven films selected for this study are analyzed for story content and in thei...
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    53,47 €

  • Restless Spirits
    Allan Havis
    A fantasy drama on clairvoyance and supernatural events surrounding the life of an African American PhD candidate who is researching folklore and ghost communication within immigrant communities in California. She is bothered by the contact with her father and with the arrest of a serial killer of young children.'An amazing, intriguing ghost tale that reinvests energy and wit t...
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    17,90 €

  • The Haunting of Jim Crow
    Allan Havis
    A factual dramatic account of the advancing history of the Brown v. Wade Supreme Court decision in counterpoint with the personal drama of Senator Strom Thurmond’s unacknowledged mixed race daughter, Essie Mae Williams Washington. ...
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    17,17 €

  • Nuevo California
    Allan Havis / Bernardo Solano
    A fabulist comedy-drama of a future city-state made up of Tijuana and San Diego after a great California earthquake. The world greets the first Mexican Pope who leads the region back into recovery. 'The year is 2028. A massive earthquake has reconfigured Southern California, wiping out Los Angeles and Orange County. The whole region has to be reconceived. In a controversial mo...
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    15,98 €

  • Plays By Allan Havis
    Allan Havis
       “Allan Havis is one of the most gifted of our younger playwrights. His chief strength seems to me to be the way he shortens the distance between the private and the political. Quiet, intelligent, lyrical, his plays are that rarest of presences in the American theater: dramas that leave you with something to think about.” Richard GilmanThis collection includes three full-leng...
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    20,42 €

  • Lilith
    Allan Havis
       “Before there was Eve there was Lilith. In his new play, LILITH, Allan Havis has placed Adam’s legendary first wife at the center of a parable about marriage. Springing Lilith loose in our age, the play is as devious as it is diabolical.   The first act is in biblical times, the second in present-day New York, but the distinction is not intended to be clear-cut…   Mr Havis w...
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    14,02 €