{"product_id":"mcteague-a-tale-of-san-francisco-9780881457063","title":"McTeague: A Tale of San Francisco","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Neal Bell | Frank Norris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Broadway Play Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46475584438423,"sku":"9780881457063","price":1458.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780881457063.jpg?v=1766275017","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mcteague-a-tale-of-san-francisco-9780881457063","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}