{"product_id":"9780571207381","title":"Life x 3 : A Play","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLife x 3\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Yasmina Reza\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the celebrated writer of Art, a scathingly hilarious commentary on  vanity, professional insecurity, and the vicissitudes of marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife X 3\u003c\/i\u003e  presents three versions of two couples (and an offstage six-year-old)  trying to make a success of one evening despite the fact that they  neither like nor respect one another. When Hubert and Inès arrive a day  early to dinner at the home of Henri and Sophie, Sophie barely has time  to change out of her robe and Inès is in a foul mood about a run in her  stocking-from there, the evening can only go downhill. Over an  improvised meal of chocolate fingers, potato chips, and wine, the  couples trade insults on every social and professional level and  loyalties are changed with the same rapidity that glasses of Sancerre  are drained. However, as she has so astutely done in the past, Yasmina  Reza uses these acidic exchanges to illuminate the innate desire for  love and acceptance in us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Reza] has perfected the technique of combining light comedy with the play of ideas . . . [\u003ci\u003eLife X 3\u003c\/i\u003e]is clever, it's elegant, it's entertaining.” —\u003ci\u003eCharles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Reza] is the most exported living playwright on the planet, a woman whose culturally rich background has given her real insight into the melting pot of today's society . . . \u003ci\u003eLife X 3\u003c\/i\u003e ruminate[s] on man's place in the universe . . . Her amalgamation of laughs with smart arguments and flashes of raw emotion is a crowd-pulling recipe . . . [Her] social satire is often cryingly funny.” —\u003ci\u003eKate Bassett, The Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Alan Ayckbourn meets Edward Albee . . . The writing is sharp, the observation spot-on.” —\u003ci\u003eGeorgina Brown, Mail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Grand Chaos Theory . . . is applied to a Parisian dinner-party in Yasmina Reza's delightful . . . comedy of manners. \u003ci\u003eLife X 3 \u003c\/i\u003eis designed to show how chance, with its impact upon our actions and behaviour, changes everything . . . A wicked pleasure to behold. Miss Reza is a star-reporter at the sex-war front and a thorough mocker of male pretensions.” —\u003ci\u003eNicholas de Jongh, The Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Adroitly translated by Christopher Hampton . . . \u003ci\u003eLIfe X 3\u003c\/i\u003e amounts to pleasure-in-triplicate.” —\u003ci\u003ePaul Taylor, The Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780571207381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593875894478,"sku":"9780571207381","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_7371407c-44be-426b-baa8-27029038979f.jpg?v=1637795221","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780571207381","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}