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A man arrives in the underworld searching for his love, only to find a mysterious guitar-wielding guide who may or may not be able to help him. He begins to mistake the underworld for the real world, and is caught there until he wakes up to the reality of his choices and breaks a cycle of violence. Passion, retribution, fate and forgiveness collide in this fantastic thriller, the latest work from the award-winning writer Glyn Maxwell, a witty and contemporary take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

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A man arrives in the underworld searching for his love, only to find a mysterious guitar-wielding guide who may or may not be able to help him. He begins to mistake the underworld for the real world, and is caught there until he wakes up to the reality of his choices and breaks a cycle of violence. Passion, retribution, fate and forgiveness collide in this fantastic thriller, the latest work from the award-winning writer Glyn Maxwell, a witty and contemporary take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Autorenporträt
Glyn Maxwell has long been regarded as one of Britain's major poets. He has been awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Prize, and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as being shortlisted three times for both the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Three of his books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. His One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems was published last year. Many of his plays have been staged in London and New York. They include The Lifeblood, which was British Theatre Guide's 'Best Play on the Fringe' at Edinburgh in 2004, Broken Journey and The Only Girl in the World (both Time Out Critics' Choices). Oberon Books publishes his Plays One (The Lifeblood, The Only Girl in the World and Wolfpit), Plays Two (Broken Journey, Best Man Speech and The Last Valentine), The Forever Waltz, Liberty, After Troy, Merlin and the Woods of Time and the libretti The Lion's Face and Seven Angels.