Love-Lies-Bleeding is a story that explores the complexities of love and the question of when life should end. The play portrays a compassionate, yet unnervingly comic portrayal of life and death that is sure to move readers. With its profound exploration of the value of life and art, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the big questions of our time.

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Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly
compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection. Three
people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-
backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting
to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless
in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a
complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of
years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended. It is
their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In
this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move
unsteadily toward last things. Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and
always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous
questions about the value of life and how we measure it.

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