{"product_id":"drinks-before-dinner-9781559361156","title":"Drinks Before Dinner","description":"This long-unavailable work by one of America's most eminent and popular writers appears in paperback for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrinks Before Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e, called \"witty and provocative\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, is E.L. Doctorow's only play. A tour-de-force of language and ideas concerning the individual's role in and response to contemporary America, \u003ci\u003eDrinks Before Dinner\u003c\/i\u003e revolves around a dinner party for the economically privileged. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Doctorow writes in his introduction, \" This play] deals in general statements about the most common circumstances of our lives, the numbers of us, the cars we drive, the television we watch, the cities we live in, our contraception and our armaments, and our underlying sense of the apocalypse...\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the past two decades, E. L. Doctorow has been counted among the country's best-regarded men of letters. His novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Daniel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRagtime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLoon Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLives of the Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorld's Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilly Bathgate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Waterworks\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also published a volume selected essays, \u003ci\u003eJack London, Hemmingway, and the Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e. His writings have garnered the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the Pen\/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, and the William Dean Howells medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356443742482,"sku":"9781559361156","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_077fbc4e-faeb-4768-a5ef-a7fe084ce37b.jpg?v=1728310135","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/drinks-before-dinner-9781559361156","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}