Hapgood

By Tom Stoppard

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B001BQ2G3G
• ISBN13: 9780571198573
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Spies and physics

A spy-thriller jest on wave/particle theory (and The Heisenberg Principle), which depends for its solution on twins.

Beware for the Intellectually Simple

This is probably my favorite play - but a word a warning. It is one of the most complex plays on the market, so watch out. It may require one having to draw out scenes and re-read parts, and even then, it can be confusing at parts. It's about double agents and english/russian spies combined with extremely complex science and physics, so if you like that kind of thing, this book is right up your alley. I also recommend some of Tom Stoppard's other plays: Dirty Linen, The Dog It Was That Died, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, and Indian Ink. And of course, his classics: Arcadia and Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dea