num_pages: 112
description: Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepards latest play is an uproarious brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma.Frank and Emma are a quiet respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Franks old friend Haynes who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium theyre visited by Welch an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank Emma and Haynes on the defensive transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously long half life.
language: English
title: The God of Hell: A Play
publisher: Vintage