{"product_id":"you-got-older-9780810135284","title":"You Got Older","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of a 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting. Mae has returned home to help her father while he undergoes treatment for cancer. But she needs a little help herself. With deceptive understatement, Barron illustrates both small moments of human connection and our ferocious desire for it, always surging beneath the surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis terrific new play by Clare Barron . . . offers a hilarious and painfully affecting blend of oddball dialogue, beautifully observed family dynamics, and a preoccupation with the weird ways of the body . . . Barron’s special genius lies in the deep dividends she derives from small talk.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"[Barron’s] play . . . blends offbeat, sometimes raunchy comedy into a slowly fused drama. Ms. Barron is not afraid of the occasional flight of fancy . . . and still more startling surprises.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Clare Barron’s extraordinary \u003ci\u003eYou Got Older\u003c\/i\u003e moved me as few new plays have. As a critic, I can usually shake things off fast . . . but for some time after the play’s wrenching finale, I found myself literally shaking. \u003ci\u003eYou Got Older\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully captures elusive things about avoidance: It’s about the denial of death, but also the denial of living. Like a great short story, it succeeds through details that . . . coalesce with a force all the stronger for their subtlety . . . there are moments in this play that I know I won’t forget.\"\" - \u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577527144791,"sku":"9780810135284","price":13.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810135284.jpg?v=1746095711","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/you-got-older-9780810135284","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}