{"product_id":"a-journal-of-the-plague-year-and-other-plays-and-adaptations-9781733046503","title":"A Journal of the Plague Year, and Other Plays and Adaptations","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of our best novelists here collects plays and adaptations he wrote before turning to fiction. His 1994 take on Daniel Defoe's \u003cem\u003eA Journal of the Plague Year\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful dramatic response to the AIDS epidemic. The one-man play \u003cem\u003eChesterfield to His Son, \u003c\/em\u003e adapting that forbidding nobleman's famous \u003cem\u003eLetters\u003c\/em\u003e, is a hilariously antic--and painfully accurate--dissection of a father's love and hopes for his son. \u003cem\u003eDr. Knox and Mr. Banner\u003c\/em\u003e examines same-sex desire in 19th-century London and the stories people tell themselves about what makes them who they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore characters tell themselves more stories in five sparkling one-act plays set in locales ranging from the sidewalk of West 23rd Street to Seward, Alaska: The Old Agitator continues his lifelong mission, but with modified idealism; a new arrival in Alaska does what she must in order to stay; a grandmother exiled to a suburban lawn examines her life and is inspired to take action; a man explores the sexual temptation offered by a random encounter, and a casual philanderer finally meets a reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the country's most interesting and accomplished novelists widens his vision with this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Key Meyers\/The Smash-And-Grab Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733046503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Steven Key Meyers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181312012469,"sku":"9781733046503","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_b8913448-dad1-4f6b-90d0-3244688fb8b7.jpg?v=1768922646","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-journal-of-the-plague-year-and-other-plays-and-adaptations-9781733046503","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}