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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 812
Fabric Type: 9780822213093
Legal Disclaimer: 0822213095
Maximum Color Depth: Dramatist's Play Service
Metal Type: Dramatist's Play Service
Region Code: 264
Total External Bays Free: 1998-01
Total Firewire Ports: Dramatist's Play Service
Dramatist's Play Service
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Living in Kentucky, I was looking forward to reading this. However, it took only a few pages to see that the dialogue didn't ring true. The thoughts and conversations seem more like what a 20th century playwright would think, rather than an early American settler.
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This is an epic story tracing a family over 9 generations. It is AMAZING. I could not put it down. The style of Shenkkan's writing and the ambition of the story reminded me of Gone with the Wind. Anyone involved or interested in the theatre must read this book!
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"The Kentucky Cycle" is simply put, a blaze of theatrical energy. Mr. Schenkkan has written a masterful piece of descriptive literature that leads the reader on a journey where each protagonist is forced into devastating behavior and choices, only so they could ultimately survive. And survive they do, and ultimately live lives filled with ambition, loss, love, and ultimately, redemption.
Indeed following the lives of two warring clans, as well as the battle for land taken from its ... Read More
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Using two family histories, The Kentucky Cycle charts the tragic sequence of events that show the American heritage of greed and violence. Good impulses in individuals are overrun by bad ones, until the earth itself is destroyed. Success is always corrupted by selfishness--the craving for power and wealth. Indians, Irish immigrants and black slaves contend with these cravings, and are ultimately overpowered by more powerful earlier settlers of the U.S. It's a heart-breaking and realistic set ... Read More
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An excellent adventure drama which parallels the growth of a rowdy young nation.
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