{"product_id":"9780573614293","title":"The Prisoner of Second Avenue","description":"Comedy \/ Characters: 2 males, 4 females\u003cp\u003eScenery: Interior \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things can't seem to get any worse...then he's robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and it's the best thing that ever happened to him...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gift for taking a grave subject and, without losing sight of its basic seriousness, treating it with hearty but sympathetic humor...A talent for writing a wonderful funny line...full of humor and intelligence. Fine fun.\"-New York Post \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Creates an atmosphere of casual cataclysm, an everyday urban purgatory of copelessness from which laughter seems to be released like vapor from the city's manholes.\"-Time\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel French, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49784722948336,"sku":"9780573614293","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780573614293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}