{"product_id":"9781780013817","title":"Machinal (NHB Classic Plays)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This is a play written in anger. In the dead wasteland of male society - it seems to ask - isn't it necessary for certain women, at least, to resort to murder?' - Nicholas Wright\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by Judith E. Barlow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'gripping... doesn't loosen its hold on the senses until its shattering climax' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'stingingly fresh and provocative' \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'[a work of] rare and disturbing beauty' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hern, Nick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152233775344,"sku":"9781780013817","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780013817_p0.jpg?v=1772805783","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780013817","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}