Adam Rapp

Adam Rapp
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Adam Rapp is the author of numerous plays, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Red Light Winter, and the novel The Year of Endless Sorrows (FSG, 2006). In 2005, his young adult novel The Buffalo Tree was censored by a school board in Reading, Pennsylvania.


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The Metal Children

Adam Rapp
Faber and Faber, Inc.

In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion,...


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Ball Peen Hammer

by Adam Rapp; illustrated by George O'Connor
First Second

The world is dying. After most of the city succumbed to the plague, Welton's staying inside -- permanently. But hiding in his claustrophobic basement room --...


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Essential Self-Defense

Adam Rapp; Introduction by the author
Faber and Faber, Inc.

In Essential Self-Defense, disgruntled misfit Yul Carroll takes a job as an attack dummy in a women’s self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn...


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The Year of Endless Sorrows

Adam Rapp
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

New York City, the early 1990s: the recession is in full swing and young people are squatting in abandoned buildings in the East Village while the homeless...


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Red Light Winter

Adam Rapp
Faber and Faber, Inc.

It’s totally familiar but dreamlike at the same time," observes one American of Amsterdam’s notorious Red Light District in the stunning new work from Adam...


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Stone Cold Dead Serious

Adam Rapp
Faber and Faber, Inc.

Recent plays from "one of the more daring young stylists working today" (David Cote, Time Out New York) Adam Rapp's plays have captivated audiences across...


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Nocturne

Adam Rapp
Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Fifteen years ago I killed my sister." So begins Adam Rapp's highly acclaimed play Nocturne, in which a 32-year-old former piano prodigy recounts the...


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