{"product_id":"exact-change-9781953943804","title":"Exact Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Epstein\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Retriever Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Retriever Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these three plays (\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eExact Change, Hair of the Dog, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eand\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eShades\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e), dramatist and screenwriter David Epstein brilliantly sketches the bleak, despairing-and howlingly funny-underside of contemporary American life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I haven't laughed so much in a theater all year. With Epstein's blackish sense of humor and wry relish of the odd, his play \u003cstrong\u003efizzes with talent\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"-\u003cstrong\u003eBenedict Nightingale, \u003cem\u003eThe Times of London \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You begin by watching unexplained actions; and when exposition arrives it propels the action through the roof. . . . By this time, Exact Change has also parted company with Mamet and revealed itself as more than an efficient laughter-machine. Nothing halts the present-tense narrative; but, from throwaway lines, you begin to assemble detail about the past . . . One sign of this writer's quality is that he can bring the piece to such an ending without jumping the comic rails: \u003cstrong\u003echilling but still brilliant\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"-\u003cstrong\u003eIrving Wardle, \u003cem\u003eThe Independent on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Retriever Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47568664363159,"sku":"9781953943804","price":1670.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781953943804.webp?v=1774869983","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/exact-change-9781953943804","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}