{"product_id":"9780881456530","title":"No Such Cold Thing","description":"In this lyrical, searing one-act, an American soldier has an unexpected encounter with two Afghan sisters who are ready to embark on a new life. Their fates-and his-become entangled as the lines between their divergent realities become dangerously blurred. \u003cp\u003e\"NO SUCH COLD THING unsettles the ground beneath our feet much as [Wallace's] characters have found it vanishing beneath their own. The characters are pitched, dreamlike, somewhere between life and death as Wallace expertly pinpoints the reality of war in the magical-surreal of dramatic imagination.\"\u003cbr\u003eRobert Avila, San Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In their existential disorientation, Wallace's Middle East plays escape the logic, the prison and the sentimental clichés of a realistic and more sociable theatre, because their impatient narratives take shape only to disintegrate, their dramatic value heightened by the instability of the drama itself.\"\u003cbr\u003eRandy Gener, American Theatre\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49997530366192,"sku":"9780881456530","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780881456530_p0.jpg?v=1784242160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881456530","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}