{"product_id":"the-apple-family-scenes-from-life-in-the-country-9781559364560","title":"The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Richard Nelson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"No previous works of theater have been topical in the resonant and specific ways of the Apple Family plays... They are a rare and radiant mirror of the way we live... In another fifty years audiences will be watching these plays to remember how we remembered.\" - Ben Brantley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The writing is so minutely observed, the portrayal of American life and its politics so current and acute that these plays speak what all of us are thinking (politically, socially, morally), but few are saying.\" - Alexis Soloski, \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Positively shattering... the Apple Family plays cement Nelson's place in American theatrical history.\" - Melissa Rose Bernardo, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis critically acclaimed play cycle about loss, memory and remembrance follows the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York, as they grapple with events both personal and political in their immediate present: the 2010 election (\u003ci\u003eThat Hopey Changey Thing\u003c\/i\u003e), the tenth anniversary of 9\/11 (\u003ci\u003eSweet and Sad\u003c\/i\u003e), Obama's reelection (\u003ci\u003eSorry\u003c\/i\u003e), and the fiftieth anniversary of JFK's assassination (\u003ci\u003eRegular Singing\u003c\/i\u003e). Delicately constructed and precisely observed, this quartet of plays -- each of which premiered at The Public Theater on the day it was set -- is a masterpiece of stage naturalism and a powerful reminder of the theater's unique capacity for civic dialogue and public communion.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999644008599,"sku":"9781559364560","price":1039.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781559364560.webp?v=1783601297","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-apple-family-scenes-from-life-in-the-country-9781559364560","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}