{"product_id":"the-little-blue-light-edmund-wilson-9780374526665","title":"The Little Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Blue Light: A Play in Three Acts\u003c\/i\u003e from the leading literary critic of his generation, Edmund Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe characters in\u003ci\u003e Little Blue Light\u003c\/i\u003e include an old-fashioned newspaperman who has become editor of a literary magazine and is making his last stand for liberalism; his brilliant, egoistic wife, who is at once intensely ambitious and dissatisfied with everything she gets; a neurotic returned expatriate, who has found out how to exploit his neurosis by writing; the editor's twenty-six year-old secretary, who represents everything most admirable in the prep school and college tradition till he is subjected to the pressure of the contemporary world; and a mysterious moralizing gardener of indeterminate nationality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis horrifying satirical play is a study of American types and a comment on social tendencies. It has something of the author's\u003ci\u003e Memoirs of Hecate County\u003c\/i\u003e, something of the late George Orwell's 1984, and something of Charles Addams's \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e cartoons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edmund Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374526664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374526665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 4.98w x 0.41d","brand":"Edmund Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056045060351,"sku":"9780374526665","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebc35ef7-4c99-457e-b5fb-604e09c49a13.jpg?v=1685039205","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-little-blue-light-edmund-wilson-9780374526665","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}