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The Fall of the House of Weston and the Crumbling of the American Dream in Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County

By: Raluca Moldovan  
Open Access
|Feb 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2022-0020 | Journal eISSN: 1841-964X | Journal ISSN: 1841-1487
Language: English
Page range: 121 - 142
Published on: Feb 15, 2023
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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