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Hapgood: A Play

By Tom Stoppard

Book information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2008
ISBN
0571198570, 9780571198573
LCC
PR6069.T6 H37 1994
Open Library ID
OL892559M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
312 kB (319712 bytes)
Edition
Broadway ed
Pages
56\56
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in Hapgood devised a play that “spins an end-of-the-cold-war tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light” (David Richards, The New York Times). It falls to Hapgood, an extraordinary British intelligence officer, to try to unravel the mystery of who is passing along top-secret scientific discoveries to the Soviets, but as she does so, the web of personal and professional betrayals—doubles and triples and possibly quadruples—continues to multiply.

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