{"product_id":"9780679746522","title":"Old Neighborhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Old Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e David Mamet confirms his stature as a master of the American stage, a writer who can turn the most innocuous phrase into a lit fuse and a family reunion into a perfectly orchestrated firestorm of sympathy, yearning, and blistering authentic rage. \u003cbr\u003e              In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old-neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present. In \"The Disappearance of the Jews,\" Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In the comfort of her kitchen, Bobby's sister \"Jolly\" unscrolls a list of childhood grievances that is at nice painful and hilarious. And the old girlfriend in \"Deeny,\" faced with a man she once loved, finds herself obsessively free-associating on gardening, sex, and subatomic particles. Swerving from comedy to terror, from tenderness to anguish—with a swiftness that unsettles even as it strikes home—\u003ci\u003eThe Old Neighborhood \u003c\/i\u003eis classic Mamet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024955392240,"sku":"9780679746522","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679746522_p0.jpg?v=1763608660","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679746522","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}