Switchback, or, Lost child in the terror zone
Subtitle: a jazz operetta
By: Murray Mednick.
Edition: 1st Sun & Moon Press ed.
Series: Sun & Moon classics ;; 140; American theater in literature
Publisher: Sun & Moon Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
Other titles: Switchback; Lost child in the terror zone
Description: In a neutral area of the Terror Zone, two women await to cross the range of gunfire, one with a baby carriage, the other on bicycle. Both have faced death many times, and the discussion they have which makes up the content of Mednick's "jazz operetta" reveals a horrifying world in which there is little hope for a future - much like the inner-city ghettos of today. Yet these women are proud, stubborn, insistent in their intent to live more normal lives and to resume their movement up the switchback.

The ending is as inevitable as tomorrow morning's headlines.