{"product_id":"love-letters-and-two-other-plays-isbn-9780452265011","title":"Love Letters and Two Other Plays","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn such critically acclaimed plays as \u003ci\u003eThe Dining Room\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cocktail Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, A. R. Gurney has wittily captured the manners of upper-middle-class WASP America, but never as gracefully or with such dazzling economy as in \u003ci\u003eLove Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.  Tracing the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner, the story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is written—and what is left unsaid—in their letters.  A smash hit both off and on Broadway, \u003ci\u003eLove Letters\u003c\/i\u003e captures Andy and Melissa with a precision of detail and depth of feeling that only Gurney can command.  Two other, thematically related plays by Gurney, \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat I Did Last Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, are included, providing a trio of wry and affectionate paeans to love lost, found, and fleetingly glimpsed.\"Gurney's finest work, and one of the four or five best American plays of the '80s.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exhilirating, funny, and moving\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Delightful … entertaining … satisfying … The most charming play to date of a charming writer.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A mini-epic … Dialogue this fine can speak for itself.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gurney is an extraordinarily precise and economical writer … His virtues have seldom been better displayed than they are in \u003ci\u003eLove Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—\u003cb\u003eHoward Kissel,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.R. Gurney\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many highly acclaimed plays, including \u003ci\u003eThe Cocktail Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove Letters,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Dining Room\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScenes from American Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e.  He is also the author of three novels and the reipient of the Drama Desk Award and the Award of Merit from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299874033893,"sku":"NP9780452265011","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452265011.jpg?v=1767731890","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/love-letters-and-two-other-plays-isbn-9780452265011","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}