{"product_id":"at-home-at-the-zoo-homelife-and-the-zoo-story-two-plays-9781590205242","title":"At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story","description":"For the first time in one volume, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Edward Albee's \u003ci\u003eAt Home at the Zoo\u003c\/i\u003e collects \u003ci\u003eHomelife\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Zoo Story\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An essential and heartening experience . . . If \u003ci\u003eHomelife\u003c\/i\u003e is an openhanded slap, \u003ci\u003eThe Zoo Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a gut punch with a closed fist. Edward Albee is a voice unparalleled in American theater.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More than 50 years after penning \u003ci\u003eThe Zoo Story\u003c\/i\u003e, master playwright Edward Albee wrote a prequel to this classic. \u003ci\u003eHomelife\u003c\/i\u003e contains the events in Peter's life immediately preceding his encounter with Jerry on the park bench and is every bit as powerful as the original. We meet Ann, Peter's wife, and see the conversation that compelled Peter to go for that fateful walk in the park.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Albee, the American dramatist, was born in 1928. He has written and directed some of the best plays in contemporary American theatre and three of his plays: A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women have received Pulitzer Prizes. His most famous play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. His other plays include The Zoo Story, The Death of Bessie Smith, The Sandbox, The American Dream, Tiny Alice, All Over, Listening, The Lady from Dubuque, The Man Who Had Three Arms, Finding the Sun, Fragments, Marriage Play and The Lorca Play.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Overlook Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567004979474,"sku":"9781590205242","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d6d0634c-052b-47fd-b5dd-6751fe2fdae1.jpg?v=1731906045","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/at-home-at-the-zoo-homelife-and-the-zoo-story-two-plays-9781590205242","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}