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J.B.: A Play in Verse: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
Contributor(s): MacLeish, Archibald (Author)

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 ISBN: 0395083532     ISBN-13: 9780395083536
Publisher: Ecco Press
OUR PRICE: $18.04  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1989
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Annotation: The beloved poet-statesman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play which offers something for every reader.
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | American - General
- Performing Arts | Theater - General
- Performing Arts | Storytelling
Dewey: 812.5
LCCN: 2008276004
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" L (0.36 lbs) 160 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Christian Century 10/18/2011 pg. 30
 
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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

Contributor Bio(s): MacLeish, Archibald: - Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois in 1892. He attended Yale University and served in World War I. Later, he went to Harvard Law School and practiced law in Boston for a few years until he gave it up and moved to Paris with his wife and children to devote all his time to writing poetry. He returned to the United States to research the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and the result, CONQUISTADOR (1932), won him a Pulitzer Prize. From 1920-1939, he was a member of the editorial board of FORTUNE magazine and he served as Librarian of Congress from 1929 to 1944. MacLeish's COLLECTED POEMS (1952) won a Pulitzer Prize and his poetic drama, J.B. based on the Book of Job, was a Broadway success in 1957.
 
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