{"product_id":"spring-awakening-frank-wedekind-9780865479784","title":"Spring Awakening: A Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Corrections \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Crossroads\u003c\/i\u003e, comes his razor-sharp translation of Frank Wedekind's major modern play, \u003ci\u003eSpring Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing an introduction by Franzen.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play \u003ci\u003eSpring Awakening \u003c\/i\u003eclosed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better part of the twentieth century Wedekind's intense body of work was largely unpublished and rarely performed. Yet the play's subject matter--teenage desire, suicide, abortion, and homosexuality--is as explosive and important today as it was a century ago. \u003ci\u003eSpring Awakening \u003c\/i\u003efollows the lives of three teenagers, Melchior, Moritz, and Wendl, as they navigate their entry into sexual awareness. Unlike so many works that claim to tell the truth of adolescence, \u003ci\u003eSpring Awakening \u003c\/i\u003eoffers no easy answers or redemption. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Today, more than a hundred years after the play's first performance, a new musical version of this essential modern masterpiece is being hailed as the \"best new musical . . . in a generation\" (John Heilpern, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e). Franzen's rendition of the text--for so long poorly served in English--is unique in capturing the bizarre and inimitable comic spirit that animates almost every line of this unrelentingly tragic play. There couldn't be a better time for this thrilling, definitive new translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Wedekind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 086547978X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865479784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.32d","brand":"Frank Wedekind","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989630222591,"sku":"9780865479784","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca7fa586-4a73-4628-874b-65e42ab84b83.jpg?v=1683300598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spring-awakening-frank-wedekind-9780865479784","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}