Three: Her car cannot make the trek and her phone is quickly running out of juice. Two: A stormageddon hits Colorado just as she gets the bad news. The issue? One: Darby never got along with her mother and in an attempt to gain her freedom she packed up and ran away from Utah to Colorado.

Her mother has an advanced case of pancreatic cancer and is going under the knife.

Trigger Warnings: descriptions of extreme violence, torture, insinuations of rape, sex trafficking, and pedophiliaĭarby Thorne is locked in a race against time.

No Exit by Taylor Adams – publisher’s website.

I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. The synopsis had me completely hooked and I was ready to dive in as soon as I got it in the mail. I did not expect to finish the book in just a few hours! The book has many great twists and turns and is full of action. Lately, Book of the Month Club has had some great selections of thrillers I could not pass up. Beckett would later expand this technique in his absurdist dramas, giving his characters increasingly bizarre names.“The difference between a hero and a victim? Timing.” Placed together, the names seem odd, somehow out of place. Within this decidedly bourgeois framework, Sartre introduces three characters with two-syllable names: Garcin (very close to garcon, French for “boy”), Inez (“Ines” in the French version), and Estelle (suggesting “star”, and therefore heaven). The Second Empire style is the epitome of the ostentatious, neo-classical tendency of French art and design, and is therefore a perfect representative for Sartre’s distaste for the bourgeoisie. Sartre was a tireless champion of human dignity, and despised many of the bourgeois values of his society (refusing even to marry his longtime companion). Rather, the setting is a drawing room containing only Second Empire furniture: there are no windows, no mirrors, and no signs of the outside world save for a single, locked door. Three characters are trapped in hell, but there are no instruments of torture or pits of fire. Startlingly simple in design, the play’s power stems from the focus and precision of its form.

The theater in which it was performed was called the Vieux-Colombier. No Exit was first performed in Paris in May 1944, only three months before the city’s liberation from the Nazi occupation.

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