Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth
活動訊息
分享今年你最有感的書，送50元電子禮券，再抽5000點金幣！
普發一萬放大術：滿千登記抽萬元好禮
內容簡介
"Outer space and inner space, the nebula and the womb: As playwright Don Nguyen observes, cosmic exploration shares some salient features with quests for human conception. (Like: No matter how much data you have, each voyage is a total unknown.) The analogy isn't new, but Nguyen explores it with an endearing sincerity in HELLO, FROM THE CHILDREN OF PLANET EARTH, a...space drama about family-making and personal risk.... Nguyen's piece is an invitation to value impossible odysseys, no matter where they might end.
HELLO, FROM THE CHILDREN OF PLANET EARTH shuttles between two long-term partnerships: Betsy and Shoshana are a couple who long to be parents, while William and Freddy are bro-colleagues at NASA charged with tracking the legendary space probe Voyager I. William and Betsy were high-school BFFs, but haven't spoken in seventeen years-until the women, exhausted from a series of miscarriages and expensive IVF treatments, contact him out of the blue as a potential sperm donor. William is flattered and terrified. He's been single and career-focused for decades, and Voyager, roaming outer space since 1977, is the closest he's got to a dependent. He considers the possibility (then excitedly acquiesces) over the course of several awkward get-togethers, including one that features Freddy as a loud, jokey wingman; too many margaritas; and some confusion over whether calamari is made from octopus or squid.
Meanwhile, in a series of fantastical interludes, a figure called The Farthest Explorer, clad in shimmering robes and bedecked in LED lights-a human embodiment of the Voyager-reports on her journey to the outer reaches of interstellar space. Strapped to her chest is Carl Sagan's famous Golden Record: a collection of earthly sounds, music, and multilingual greetings, sent into the cosmos in hopes of fostering communications with extraterrestrial beings.
HELLO, FROM THE CHILDREN OF PLANET EARTH is an...engaging ode to personal growth. ...it's hard not to root for Nguyen's celebration of unconventional family-which, here, extends from Betsy, Shoshana, and their potential child to include a sperm donor and his close friend.
The play's central comparison is between a fetus and a space probe, and its central drama follows the agonizing wait for communications from both: news about the pregnancy's health, news about the Voyager's arrival in the interstellar zone.... Nguyen's play [wi]ll lead you onto familiar ground with compassionate humor."
Miriam Felton-Dansky, The Village Voice
配送方式
-
台灣
- 國內宅配：本島、離島
-
到店取貨：
不限金額免運費
-
海外
- 國際快遞：全球
-
港澳店取：
訂購/退換貨須知
加入金石堂 LINE 官方帳號『完成綁定』，隨時掌握出貨動態：
商品運送說明：
- 本公司所提供的產品配送區域範圍目前僅限台灣本島。注意！收件地址請勿為郵政信箱。
- 商品將由廠商透過貨運或是郵局寄送。消費者訂購之商品若無法送達，經電話或 E-mail無法聯繫逾三天者，本公司將取消該筆訂單，並且全額退款。
- 當廠商出貨後，您會收到E-mail出貨通知，您也可透過【訂單查詢】確認出貨情況。
- 產品顏色可能會因網頁呈現與拍攝關係產生色差，圖片僅供參考，商品依實際供貨樣式為準。
- 如果是大型商品（如：傢俱、床墊、家電、運動器材等）及需安裝商品，請依商品頁面說明為主。訂單完成收款確認後，出貨廠商將會和您聯繫確認相關配送等細節。
- 偏遠地區、樓層費及其它加價費用，皆由廠商於約定配送時一併告知，廠商將保留出貨與否的權利。
提醒您！！
金石堂及銀行均不會請您操作ATM! 如接獲電話要求您前往ATM提款機，請不要聽從指示，以免受騙上當！
退換貨須知：
**提醒您，鑑賞期不等於試用期，退回商品須為全新狀態**
-
依據「消費者保護法」第19條及行政院消費者保護處公告之「通訊交易解除權合理例外情事適用準則」，以下商品購買後，除商品本身有瑕疵外，將不提供7天的猶豫期：
- 易於腐敗、保存期限較短或解約時即將逾期。（如：生鮮食品）
- 依消費者要求所為之客製化給付。（客製化商品）
- 報紙、期刊或雜誌。（含MOOK、外文雜誌）
- 經消費者拆封之影音商品或電腦軟體。
- 非以有形媒介提供之數位內容或一經提供即為完成之線上服務，經消費者事先同意始提供。（如：電子書、電子雜誌、下載版軟體、虛擬商品…等）
- 已拆封之個人衛生用品。（如：內衣褲、刮鬍刀、除毛刀…等）
- 若非上列種類商品，均享有到貨7天的猶豫期（含例假日）。
- 辦理退換貨時，商品（組合商品恕無法接受單獨退貨）必須是您收到商品時的原始狀態（包含商品本體、配件、贈品、保證書、所有附隨資料文件及原廠內外包裝…等），請勿直接使用原廠包裝寄送，或於原廠包裝上黏貼紙張或書寫文字。
- 退回商品若無法回復原狀，將請您負擔回復原狀所需費用，嚴重時將影響您的退貨權益。
商品評價