{"product_id":"why-beckett-9780500014622","title":"Why Beckett","description":"\u003cp\u003eTheatre Journal Since Enoch Braters essential study of Samuel Becketts life and works was originally published before Beckett died  the author has taken the opportunity of this paperback reprint to bring his subject up to date. Beckett was undoubtedly a difficult writer  and one of the virtues of this biography is to give the general reader easier access to all aspects of his work  particularly the more elliptic theater and prose pieces of his later years. Brater follows Becketts career from the early days in Ireland to the efllorescence in his chosen expatriate home in France just after the Second World War  and beyond that to his success in the rest of the world as a result of the universal appeal of his cryptic  moving play Waiting for Godot. Brater emphasizes the Irish rhythms in Becketts writing and examines  at all stages  the intriguing relationship between his fiction and his compositions for theater  film  and television. Supported by a generous selection of photographs  including many examples of Beckett productions in all parts of the world  this is the indispensable guide to understanding one of the literary geniuses of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45816315346997,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500014620","price":29.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500014622.jpg?v=1785182213","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-beckett-9780500014622","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}