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 explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light" (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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802128343
• ISBN13: 9780802128348
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"

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