{"product_id":"9780822235118","title":"Prodigal Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary dreams and his roots in the Bronx... \u003ci\u003eProdigal Son\u003c\/i\u003e is pure, splendid Shanley: shaggily idealistic and always scratching a philosophical itch underneath jokes and banter.\" — Davide Cote, \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shanley chooses characters stretched to the breaking point between rage and love… His are characters of obsessive passions who match those passions with hyper-melodic language.” — \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a troubled but gifted boy from the South Bronx arrives at a private school in New Hampshire, two faculty members wrestle with how to help him adjust to his new environment. The boy is violent, brilliant, alienated, and on fire with a ferocious loneliness. As with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, \u003ci\u003eDoubt\u003c\/i\u003e , John Patrick Shanley has drawn on his personal experiences to create an explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of either salvation or destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Patrick Shanley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDoubt, a parable\u003c\/i\u003e (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play), \u003ci\u003eOutside Mullingar\u003c\/i\u003e (Tony nomination for Best Play), \u003ci\u003eDefiance, Storefront Church, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eDirty Story\u003c\/i\u003e , among many other plays. He wrote the teleplay for \u003ci\u003eLive from Baghdad\u003c\/i\u003e (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing of a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special) and the screenplays for \u003ci\u003eCongo, Alive, Five Corners, Joe Versus the Volcano, Doubt, a parable\u003c\/i\u003e (Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay) and \u003ci\u003eMoonstruck\u003c\/i\u003e (Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dramatists Play Service, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026799706352,"sku":"9780822235118","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822235118","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}