{"product_id":"9780881457063","title":"McTeague: A Tale of San Francisco","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeal Bell's adaptation of Frank Norris's novel tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence, and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed. \"Frank Norris's novel \u003cem\u003eMcTeague \u003c\/em\u003eis a panorama of the U S at the turn of the century: cowboys, gold mines, the immigrant experience, the advent of electricity and the movies. At the core is a gruesome cautionary tale, aptly retitled \u003cem\u003eGreed\u003c\/em\u003e by Erich Von Stroheim when he made a nine-hour film of it in 1923 … In adapting it anew … Neal Bell's script [tells] a story of downward mobility, about a miner turned dentist (sans diploma) who winds up defrocked and doomed in an abandoned mine.\" —William A Henry III, Time \"Bell weaves a thick, dark tapestry of themes from MCTEAGUE's epic of incidents. Socially, the focus is on the helplessness of a rough simpleton in a rapidly urbanizing and professionalizing America — and on the determination of immigrants and bootstrap-tuggers to cling to the middle class rather than fall into the Victorian abyss of want. Psychologically, it's on the metamorphosis of McTeague's innocent ignorance into murderous rage — and Trina's sensible shift into masochistic self-denial. Morally, it's on the life-choking consequences of treating money as an end in itself rather than a means toward fulfilling human needs. Each of these levels resonates through the adaptation's writing.\" —Scott Rosenberg, San Francisco Examiner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadway Play Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032625987824,"sku":"9780881457063","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780881457063_p0.jpg?v=1763838906","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780881457063","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}