{"product_id":"9780571280728","title":"Richard Nelson: Plays 2: Three Plays of Adolescence: Goodnight Children Everywhere; Franny's Way; Madame Melville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree Plays of Adolescence: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodnight Children Everywhere; Franny's Way; Madame Melville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodnight Children Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlivier Award for Best Play, 2000\u003cbr\u003e'Exile - both literal and emotional - has been a haunting preoccupation for this dramatist. And with all themes of displacement and loss comes the yearning for a sense of place, for those attachments we cannot always rationalize but know as home. In \u003ci\u003eGoodnight Children Everywhere, \u003c\/i\u003ethe safe harbor of home has been dynamited by war... A disturbing and lovely domestic drama about the loss of childhood.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFranny's Way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Boundaries warp and melt in the dense urban heat that pervades \u003ci\u003eFranny's Way, \u003c\/i\u003eNelson's sensitively drawn portrait of love in the age of J.D.Salinger. The lines between childhood and adulthood blur disorientatingly for the three generations of characters gathered in a cramped apartment in Greenwich Village at the height of the summer in the 1950's... Nelson continues to give compassionate and insightful life to such erotic waywardness.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'It moves with the breathless haste of a horny teen on prom night.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadame Melville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'A memory play of wonderful delicacy, tenderness and humour... I left the theatre elated at having discovered such a terrific new play. An exquisite reminder of lost love, innocence and youth.' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'An elegant, tender, beguiling play.' Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It moves with the breathless haste of a horny teen on prom night.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadame Melville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A memory play of wonderful delicacy, tenderness and humour... I left the theatre elated at having discovered such a terrific new play. An exquisite reminder of lost love, innocence and youth.' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An elegant, tender, beguiling play.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167072207088,"sku":"9780571280728","price":16.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571280728_p0.jpg?v=1763719015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571280728","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}