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Skin of Our Teeth
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Skin of Our Teeth

Genres
Fiction: literary and general non-genre · Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
2017
first published
English
language
1
edition in English
142
pages

Characters: 4 or 5 male, 4 or 5 female, plus many small parts w/doubling Scenery: Interiors and Exteriors Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the groundbreaking satiric fantasy follows the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of " The War" surviving flood, fire, pestilence, locusts, the ice age, the pox and the double feature, a dozen subsequent wars and as many depressions. Ultimately, they are the stuff of which heroes and buffoons are made. Their survival is a vividly theatrical testament of faith in humanity. " Wonderfully wise... A tremendously exciting and profound stage fable."-Herald Tribune

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