''Love and Death on Long Island'' is a novella written by

Gilbert Adair Gilbert Adair (29 December 19448 December 2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic, and journalist.Stuart Jeffries and Ronald BerganObituary: Gilbert Adair ''The Guardian'', 9 December 2011. He was critically most famous for the "fiend ...

and first published in

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Adaptations

*It was adapted as a 1997 film, ''

Love and Death on Long Island ''Love and Death on Long Island'' is a 1997 British-Canadian film directed by Richard Kwietniowski and starring Jason Priestley, John Hurt, Fiona Loewi, Sheila Hancock and Anne Reid. The storyline of obsession somewhat resembles that of ''Death i ...

'', directed by

Richard Kwietniowski Richard Kwietniowski (born 17 March 1957) is an English film director and screenwriter of Polish descent. During the 1980s he was a film lecturer at Bulmershe College of Higher Education (now Bulmershe Court in Reading, Berkshire. He has dir ...

and starring

Jason Priestley Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is a Canadian actor and television director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1990–1998, 2000), as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick in t ...

John Hurt Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 – 25 January 2017) was an English actor whose career spanned over five decades. Hurt was regarded as one of Britain's finest actors. Director David Lynch described him as "simply the greatest actor in t ...

and

Fiona Loewi Fiona Loewi (born 1975) is a Canadian actress. She attended McGill University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She is perhaps best known for ''Love and Death on Long Island''. Her married name is Fiona Loewi Reinhardt and she is ...

. *It was adapted as a stage play with music by

Ben Parry Ben Parry is a retired American soccer Defender (association football), defender who played professionally in the USISL. Youth In 1993, Parry graduated from North Stanly High School where he was an All State soccer player. He attended UNC Cha ...

, book and libretto by

himself, directed by Edward Williams with

Anna Carteret Anna Carteret (born 11 December 1942) is a British stage and screen actress. Biography Carteret was born as Annabelle S. Wilkinson on 11 December 1942 in Bangalore, British India, the daughter of Peter John Wilkinson and his wife Patricia Ca ...

, Gordon Fraser and

Richard O'Callaghan Richard O'Callaghan (born Richard Brooke, 7 March 1940, London) is an English film, stage and television character actor. He is the son of actors Patricia Hayes and Valentine Brooke, whose stage name was Valentine Rooke. As a boy actor he was ...

in London's West End in 2008. 1990 British novels Novels by Gilbert Adair British novels adapted into films Scottish novellas Heinemann (publisher) books {{1990s-LGBT-novel-stub