{"product_id":"beautys-daughter-monster-the-gimmick-three-plays-paperback","title":"Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDael Orlandersmith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled critics and audiences alike. In these three pieces, the award-winning writer and performer celebrates the power of words to rescue the young black women she portrays from their constricted worlds. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the Obie Award-winning play \"Beauty's Daughter,\" Diane yearns to free herself from her soul-deadening surroundings, where people drown their unfulfilled aspirations in drugs and alcohol. In \"Monster,\" Theresa imagines a life in the rock-'n'-roll poetry bohemia of Manhattan's Lower East Side and away from her home in East Harlem, where she is scorned as a misfit. And in \"The Gimmick,\" Alexis escapes her brutal reality among the library bookshelves, where she dreams of becoming a writer in Paris. Charged with fearless wisdom, these three electrifying plays transform rage-filled ghetto experience into a triumph of rhapsodic expression.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDael Orlandersmith lives in New York City. She won an Obie award in 1995 for \"Beauty's Daughter.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 7.98 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53590683877683,"sku":"9780375708718","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/2yNDzcP6RK9780375708718.webp?v=1782868153","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/beautys-daughter-monster-the-gimmick-three-plays-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}