{"product_id":"9780802144263","title":"The Visit","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this ALTA National Translation Award–winning new translation of what many critics consider his finest play, Joel Agee gives a fresh lease to a classic of twentieth—century theater.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriedrich Dürrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Dürrenmatt once wrote of himself: “I can best be understood if one grasps grotesqueness,” and \u003ci\u003eThe Visit\u003c\/i\u003e is a consummate, alarming Dürrenmatt blend of hilarity, horror, and vertigo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe play takes place “somewhere in Central Europe” and tells of an elderly millionairess who, merely on the promise of her millions, swiftly turns a depressed area into a boom town. But the condition attached to her largesse, which the locals learn of only after they are enmeshed, is murder. Dürrenmatt has fashioned a macabre and entertaining parable that is a scathing indictment of the power of greed and confronts the perennial questions of honor, loyalty, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42674174951485,"sku":"9780802144263","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780802144263_p0.jpg?v=1771579982","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780802144263","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}