{"product_id":"the-little-monsters-alan-bowne-9780881457599","title":"The Little Monsters","description":"\u003cp\u003efrom Interview, August 1987 by Kevin Sessums: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"There's a creature known in the South as a feist dog. Little. Scraggly. High-strung. You know where one lives by a backyard full of barks. The thing'll take on a German shepard--shit, the whole German army--if it thinks its territory is being threatened. But it likes kids too. And it likes the feel of a hand on its underbelly.\u003cbr\u003e Playwright and screenwriter Alan Bowne, whose work concerns the scraggly underbelly of life itself, has the friendly tenacity of one of those tight-tailed mutts...\u003cbr\u003e Bowne didn't start writing until he was 35. Before that?  I bummed around. Drug dealer. Movie extra. Junkie...'\u003cbr\u003e ...he begins to growl away at a number of subjects. ...Love: \u003cbr\u003e  Living without love is death itself. If you have love in your life--the true thing--then you've got everything.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that is what Alan Bowne's great plays--BEIRUT, SHARON AND BILLY--are about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE LITTLE MONSTERS tells the story of, in the author's words: Maurice, a bald myopic WASP in his late 50s; Kip, a slight plain scruffy male in his late teens, of Irish extraction; 3-Yard, a coarse handsome well-built male in his late teens, of Italian extraction; and Gooey, a plump flashy Jewish female in her late teens--a hitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Bowne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0881457590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881457599\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 02\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Alan Bowne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438038495487,"sku":"9780881457599","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82a4eb74-3019-46d0-854c-b17c5f2d2cc6.jpg?v=1777168383","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-little-monsters-alan-bowne-9780881457599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}