{"product_id":"joan-stephen-belber-9780881458428","title":"Joan","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"With the craft and depth of a fine novelist, Mr Belber creates a mosaic of pointed incidents imparting vital information. Beautifully dramatized is the subtext of enduring the damage by a troubled family background, as evidenced by Joan's circuitous life journey with its bouts of self-sabotage, irrational decisions, selfishness and redemptive self-awareness. The form of the memory play is taken to the zenith by JOAN.\"\u003cbr\u003e Theatre Scene \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"With bold ambition to do just that, to tell the story of one woman's life with honesty and integrity, playwright Stephen Belber's JOAN offers a kaleidoscopic look at its fictional, titular character through a lens of sweeping longitude that slowly creates an absorbing and dramatically effective portrait. The humanity painted by Mr Belber's play is moving precisely because of its simplicity and ordinariness. Every person has a story. Joan's is worth seeing.\"\u003cbr\u003e Stage Left\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"In many ways, Joan has led a normal existence: daughter and mother, lover and wife, sister and friend, artist and teacher. She has had affairs and heartaches, hopes and frustrations. What's less ordinary is how the playwright Stephen Belber tells her story: in nonchronological vignettes that jump around various points in her life. ...JOAN is a fractured portrait that holds together.\"\u003cbr\u003e Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Belber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0881458422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881458428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadway Play Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d","brand":"Stephen Belber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46199060791551,"sku":"9780881458428","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1ded971-e1ca-4b93-a045-f19e4986ddcc.jpg?v=1727924917","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/joan-stephen-belber-9780881458428","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}