The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold - in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour - our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are playing psychiatric patients playing doctors and nurses? And who, exactly, is Arno Klein?
Described by the Boston Globe on its first performance as `an unselfconscious, fizzing, inventive black comedy that is enormously funny', The Day Room displays Don DeLillo's extraordinary talents in the brightest of lights.
- ISBN10 0140115323
- ISBN13 9780140115321
- Publish Date 7 February 1989 (first published 12 December 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 112
- Language English