Proof: A Play by David Auburn (2001, Paperback)

Synopsis
Catherine,the daughter of a once-brilliant mathematician, is at the center of this play. Caring for her aging father, Catherine is at once attracted and repelled by her father's genius. She is torn between returning to New York with her sister, and helping an old student of her father salvage something meaningful from the stacks of notes her father kept. Falling in love with this student, Catherine learns how much she and her father may have in common. This play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for drama and a 2001 Tony Award for best play.

Key Details
Author:	David Auburn
Language:	English
Publisher:	Faber & Faber
Format:	Paperback
ISBN-10:	0571199976
ISBN-13:	9780571199976

Additional Details
Edition Number:	1

Size
Length:	83 pages
Height:	8 in
Width:	5.5 in
Thickness:	0.2 in
Weight:	3.2 oz

Publisher's Note
In a play portraying the uncertainties of trust, integrity, and genius, a woman claims authorship of a mathematical proof found among her late father's papers by one of his former students, who doubts her claim.

One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of mathematics.
On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind.
As Catherine confronts Hal's affections and Claire's plans for her life, she struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her father's madness - or genius - will she inherit?