J.B.: A Play in Verse: A Pulitzer Prize Winner (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780395083536)

J. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses to turn his back on God. J.B.: A Play in Verse sparked a national conversation about the nature of God, the meaning of hope, and the role of the artist in society."It was an inspiration to select the Biblical figure of Job as a prism in which to reflect the suffering and the injustice of our time."--The Atlantic

Author: Archibald MacLeish
ISBN-10: 0395083532
ISBN-13: 9780395083536
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1989
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 10/18/2011 pg. 30