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Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Hir, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our so-called normative and progressive ideas about gender, families, the middle class - and cleaning - in hilarious and ultimately tragic disarray.

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[A] brave deconstruction of a family drama that slides from bizarre farce to Greek tragedy with audacious velocity."" —San Jose Mercury News

""Hir challenges expectations on every level except that of providing engrossing entertainment, which it does to a remarkable degree."" —San Francisco Chronicle

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    A Paperback by Taylor Mac

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      Publisher Northwestern University Press
      Published 10/31/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780810133587
      978-0810133587
      ISBN-10 081013358X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Hir, Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy, leaves many of our so-called normative and progressive ideas about gender, families, the middle class - and cleaning - in hilarious and ultimately tragic disarray.

      Trade Review
      [A] brave deconstruction of a family drama that slides from bizarre farce to Greek tragedy with audacious velocity."" —San Jose Mercury News

      ""Hir challenges expectations on every level except that of providing engrossing entertainment, which it does to a remarkable degree."" —San Francisco Chronicle

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