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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100395083532
ISBN-139780395083536
eBay Product ID (ePID)531858
Product Key Features
Number of Pages160 Pages
Publication NameJ. B : a Play in Verse
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, American / General
Publication Year1989
TypeNot Available
AuthorArchibald. Macleish
Subject AreaDrama, Reference
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight5 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Decimal821.1
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisJ. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses to turn his back on God. J.B.: A Play in Verse sparked a national conversation about the nature of God, the meaning of hope, and the role of the artist in society.It was an inspiration to select the Biblical figure of Job as a prism in which to reflect the suffering and the injustice of our time.--The Atlantic, J. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses to turn his back on God. J.B.: A Play in Verse sparked a national conversation about the nature of God, the meaning of hope, and the role of the artist in society."It was an inspiration to select the Biblical figure of Job as a prism in which to reflect the suffering and the injustice of our time."--The Atlantic, J. B.: A Play in Verse is multi-Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Archibald MacLeish's Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job., Modern poetic version of the biblical Book of Job which attempts to relate the concept of goodness to contemporary life.