{ "item_title" : "The Little Monsters", "item_author" : [" Alan Bowne "], "item_description" : "from Interview, August 1987 by Kevin Sessums: There's a creature known in the South as a feist dog. Little. Scraggly. High-strung. You know where one lives by a backyard full of barks. The thing'll take on a German shepard--shit, the whole German army--if it thinks its territory is being threatened. But it likes kids too. And it likes the feel of a hand on its underbelly. Playwright and screenwriter Alan Bowne, whose work concerns the scraggly underbelly of life itself, has the friendly tenacity of one of those tight-tailed mutts... Bowne didn't start writing until he was 35. Before that?I bummed around. Drug dealer. Movie extra. Junkie...' ...he begins to growl away at a number of subjects. ...Love: Living without love is death itself. If you have love in your life--the true thing--then you've got everything.'And that is what Alan Bowne's great plays--BEIRUT, SHARON AND BILLY--are about.THE LITTLE MONSTERS tells the story of, in the author's words: Maurice, a bald myopic WASP in his late 50s; Kip, a slight plain scruffy male in his late teens, of Irish extraction; 3-Yard, a coarse handsome well-built male in his late teens, of Italian extraction; and Gooey, a plump flashy Jewish female in her late teens--a hitter.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/88/145/759/0881457590_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.95", "online_price" : "15.95", "our_price" : "15.95", "club_price" : "15.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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