{"product_id":"last-pages-stories-a-play-poems-essays-9781945551512","title":"Last Pages: Stories, a Play, Poems, Essays","description":"\u003ci\u003eLast Pages\u003c\/i\u003e brings together some of the most thought-provoking and engaging works of Oscar Mandel, a noted Belgian-American playwright, essayist, poet, fiction writer, and scholar. Comprising essays, a novella, a one-act play, and poetry, \u003ci\u003eLast Pages\u003c\/i\u003e dances through Mandel's archives with wit, sharp intelligence, and sometimes controversy, as with his essay on Judaism, \"To Be or Not to Be a Jew.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOscar Mandel is a Belgian-born American author, playwright, poet, and professor emeritus of literature at the California Institute of Technology. His plays have been widely staged, and his many published works, including the more recent books \u003ci\u003eOtherwise Fables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOtherwise Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, range across the fields of poetry, drama, fiction, the essay, literary scholarship and theory, translations (especially from French and German), and art history. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and Paris, France. Visit his website at www.oscarmandel.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Prospect Park Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528486555922,"sku":"9781945551512","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa9bfbe3-d352-4bae-918f-732860ee6d74.jpg?v=1731327791","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/last-pages-stories-a-play-poems-essays-9781945551512","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}