{"product_id":"luna-park-donald-margulies-9781559362061","title":"Luna Park: Short Plays and Monologues","description":"Award-winning playwright Donald Margulies is \"literate and intellectually stimulating\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"a playwright of the most unusual imaginative power\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eLuna Park: Short Plays and Monologues\u003c\/i\u003e collects Margulies's best short plays and monologues spanning three decades. Taken as a whole, the work is an extraordinary representation of a particularly American reality of the twentieth century. His language is exquisite and deceptive in its simplicity, wherein the larger questions of our daily existence emerge and are clarified. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes \u003ci\u003eJuly 7, 1994\u003c\/i\u003e, hailed at its premiere by Richard Christiansen of the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a powerful drama about a new and devastating age of anxiety in the United States\"; \u003ci\u003ePitching to the Star\u003c\/i\u003e, a darkly comic look at the writers' lot in Hollywood; \u003ci\u003eLuna Park\u003c\/i\u003e, an elegiac look at the American past and the immigrant experience, inspired by a short story by Delmore Schwartz; and many more short works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Margulies\u003c\/b\u003e received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for \u003ci\u003eDinner with Friends\u003c\/i\u003e. The play received numerous awards, including the American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, the Dramatists Guild\/Hull-Warriner Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Drama Desk nomination, and has been produced all over the United States and around the world. In addition to his adaptation of \u003ci\u003eGod of Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e, his many plays include \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Country House, Sight Unseen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Model Apartment\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Loman Family Picnic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat's Wrong with This Picture?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime Stands Still\u003c\/i\u003e. Mr. Margulies currently lives with his wife and their son in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches playwriting at Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Margulies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1559362065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559362061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.46w x 0.65d","brand":"Donald Margulies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939629826303,"sku":"9781559362061","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_41a41877-a026-4d21-86f8-626c991bc675.jpg?v=1681442610","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/luna-park-donald-margulies-9781559362061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}