Our Town: A Play in Three Acts - (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) by Thornton Wilder (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published: New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1939.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>"[<em>Our Town</em>] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth."--<em> New Yorker</em></strong></p><p><strong>Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire--an allegorical representation of all life--is an American classic. It is the simple story of a love affair that asks timeless questions about the meaning of love, life, and death. This beautiful Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition features French flaps and deckle-edge paper.</strong></p><p><em> Our Town</em> explores the relationship between two young neighbors, George Gibbs and Emily Webb, whose childhood friendship blossoms into romance, and then culminates in marriage. When Emily loses her life in childbirth, the circle of life portrayed in each of the three acts--childhood, adulthood, and death--is fully realized.</p><p> Often considered one of the greatest American plays of all time, <em>Our Town</em> is also Wilder's most frequently staged play. It debuted on Broadway in 1938 and continues to be performed daily on stages all around the world.</p><br/><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><em>Our Town</em> was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Its astringent distillation of life and death in the fictional early-20th-century town of Grover's Corners, N.H., is desperately needed...so Americans can remember who we are. . . . The true American faith endures in "Our Town."--<strong>Frank Rich, <em>New York Times</em></strong><br><br>"Taking as his material three periods in the history of a placid New Hampshire town, Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reverie. He has given familiar facts a deeply moving, philosophical perspective....<em>Our Town</em> is one of the finest achievements of the current stage."--<strong>Brooks Atkinson</strong><br><br>"Wilder's unfashionable insistence on embracing wonders as well as woe is both gallant and exhilarating. . . .[<em>Our Town</em>] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth"--<strong><em>The New Yorker</em></strong><br>
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