{"product_id":"play-a-novel-alan-singer-9781874400776","title":"Play, A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriter-director Pan Fleet plans a new experimental play for the off-Broadway stage: \u003cem\u003eKiller Killing Killers\u003c\/em\u003e, a montage of murder scenes, aiming to provoke his audience's ire with a work apparently amorally predicated on senseless violence. The plan is complicated by the intervention of his heart surgeon, who also fancies himself as a kind of \"director\" and by the surgeon's wife, an empathy-challenged child psychologist who clashes with Pan's leading lady.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel plays, so to speak, on the distinction between acting (doing something) and acting (playing a role). The narrative, which alternates between episodes of planning and rehearsing Pan's play and scenes that will be performed on opening night, presents a fiercely satirical staging of the problems we face whenever we attempt to do justice to other people's experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Singer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1874400776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781874400776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grand Iota\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Alan Singer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965863411967,"sku":"9781874400776","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9af8f950-d016-4d48-ad5e-e96b91129a36.jpg?v=1767285363","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/play-a-novel-alan-singer-9781874400776","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}