The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country is copyright © 2014 by Richard Nelson

That Hopey Changey Thing, Sweet and Sad, Sorry and Regular Singing are copyright © 2014 by Richard Nelson

Introduction is copyright © 2014 by Oskar Eustis

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Nelson, Richard, 1950–

The Apple family : scenes from life in the country / Richard Nelson.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-55936-775-2 (ebook)

1. Rhinebeck (N.Y.)—Drama.  2. Domestic drama.  I. Title.

PS3564.E4747A85      2014

812’.54—dc23      2014006961

Book design and composition by Lisa Govan

Cover design by Mark Melnick

Cover photograph: Arvind Garg / The Image Bank / Getty Images

First Edition, November 2014