Synopsis
The Subject Was Roses
Published by Samuel French Inc
2 Male 1 Female
They want to love each other, to relive the good times and build some better ones together, but each finds it impossible to communicate with either of the others. They find that they have grown apart irrevocably and can no longer reconcile the dream and the reality
A polka with his mother throws both her and Timmy into fits of laughter, but then this isn't the boy she remembers at all
His father gives up a lucrative business appointment to take him to a ball game, they have a great time, but next morning the rancor of husband-and-wife turns sour the love of father for son
"Tender and lucid play" ~ N.Y World-Telegram
Purlitzer Prize, 1965