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Reasons to Be Pretty

A Play

Author: Neil LaBute

Reasons to Be Pretty

Reasons to Be Pretty

$17.00

About This Book

In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face and his own girlfriend Steph's lack thereof...

Page Count
160
On Sale
06/24/2008

Book Details

In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand remarks about a female coworker's pretty face and his own girlfriend Steph's lack thereof get back to Steph. But that's just the beginning. Greg's best buddy, Kent, and Kent's wife, Carly, also enter into the picture, and the emotional equation becomes exponentially more complicated. As their relationships crumble, the four friends are forced to confront a sea of deceit, infidelity, and betrayed trust in their journey to answer that oh-so-American question: How much is pretty worth?

Neil LaBute's bristling new comic drama puts the final ferocious cap on a trilogy of plays that began with The Shape of Things and Fat Pig. America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in this brutal and exhilarating work.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780865479982

In The News

“Mr. LaBute is writing some of the freshest and most illuminating American dialogue to be heard anywhere these days.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times

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Reasons to Be Pretty

Reasons to Be Pretty

$17.00