{"product_id":"the-old-neighborhood-9780679746522","title":"The Old Neighborhood","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Old Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e David Mamet confirms his stature as a master of the American stage, a writer who can turn the most innocuous phrase into a lit fuse and a family reunion into a perfectly orchestrated firestorm of sympathy, yearning, and blistering authentic rage. \u003cbr\u003e              In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old-neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present. In \"The Disappearance of the Jews,\" Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In the comfort of her kitchen, Bobby's sister \"Jolly\" unscrolls a list of childhood grievances that is at nice painful and hilarious. And the old girlfriend in \"Deeny,\" faced with a man she once loved, finds herself obsessively free-associating on gardening, sex, and subatomic particles. Swerving from comedy to terror, from tenderness to anguish—with a swiftness that unsettles even as it strikes home—\u003ci\u003eThe Old Neighborhood \u003c\/i\u003eis classic Mamet.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62344945172867,"sku":"9780679746522","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780679746522.jpg?v=1786255690","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-old-neighborhood-9780679746522","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}