Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) [Revised TCG Edition]: With Other Monologues for Theatre

By Will Eno

Book Overview

"It's sad, isn't it? The dead horse of a life we beat, all the wilder, all the harder the deader it gets. On the other hand, there are some nice shops in the area."

Thom Pain has come to a certain point in his life. Maybe you have too. His entire existence is ordinary; but that ordinariness is a revelation and a wonder and a curiosity. To him at least. He'd better hope so. It's all he has (except maybe a dictionary and an old love letter).

Comic and disturbing, this provocative monologue charts one man's anguished journey from shattered childhood dreams and trauma to the tenuous, if guarded, optimism of adulthood, told in dangerous intimacy by a voice loaded with wry humor and deceptive charm.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559369590
• ISBN13: 9781559369596
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

What an incredible book... and cover!

This book was absolutely amazing. I would recommend it to all. I loved it from the beginning to the end. Just as much (I am a huge art fan) I loved the cover art. I would love a print of this photo. Who is the artist of this mesmerizing cover??? Is it someone famous?

heart wrenching

A bloody, brilliant, gnawingly humane cry from the gut. It broke my heart and was thought-provoking in the extreme. Eno is clearly gifted and just starting the ascension to the top of his game