Rock 'n' roll
By: Tom Stoppard
Publisher: Grove Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9780802143075
Subjects: Rock groups -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- Drama; Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1968-1989 -- Drama
Genres: Drama
Other titles: Rock and roll
Description: "Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and the world is ablaze with rebellion, accompanied by a sound track of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge graduate student, returns to his homeland of Czechoslovakia just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague. When security forces tighten their grip on artistic expression, Jan is inexorably drawn toward a dangerous act of dissent. Back in England, Jan's volcanic mentor, Max, faces a war of his own as his free-spirited daughter and his cancer-stricken wife attempt to break through his walls of academic and emotional obstinacy. Over the next twenty years of love, espionage, chance, and loss, the extraordinary lives of Jan and Max spin and intersect until an unexpected reunion forces them to see what is truly worth the fight. Both moving and funny, Stoppard's passionate tour de force explores a world of betrayals and hopes to find something lasting, true, and free underneath."--Publisher's website.