{"product_id":"love-goes-to-press-a-comedy-in-three-acts-second-edition-paperback-softback-9780803226777","title":"Love Goes to Press; A Comedy in Three Acts, Second Edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9780803226777","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLove Goes to Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Comedy in Three Acts, Second Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartha Gellhorn (Author), Virginia Cowles (Author), Sandra Spanier (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780803226777\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 January 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e128 pages, 7 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 15.9 x 0.8 cm, 0.198 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLove Goes to Press\u003c\/i\u003e's primary interest lies with its enduring humour and stageworthiness. Directors looking for plays by and about women would do well to consider it.\"—Deborah Zike, \u003ci\u003eTheatre Research International\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLove Goes to Press\u003c\/i\u003e was clearly fun to write and it must have played at a spanking pace.\"—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"What's fascinating about \u003ci\u003eLove Goes to Press\u003c\/i\u003e is its saucy heroines' mix of competence, ambition, and lovelornness. . . . It's great to have them liberated from literary obscurity.\"—Carolyn Clay, \u003ci\u003eBoston Phoenix Literary Section\u003c\/i\u003e\/DIV\u0026amp;gt;\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Hilarious and fast-paced, the play has a brilliant ending that leaves readers to their own imaginations. And 50 years later, the characterization of the protagonists is still contemporary and real.\"—Ming-Ming Shen Kuo, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This marvelously witty farce enjoyed a long, healthy run in London's West End.\"—Jack Helbig, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Editor Sandra Spanier does a fine job, in this expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eLove Goes to Press\u003c\/i\u003e, of providing historical and literary context for the play.\"—Kaja Katamay, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWritten in the aftermath of World War II, \u003ci\u003eLove Goes to Press\u003c\/i\u003e opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a devilishly entertaining portrayal of the Battle of the Sexes.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn this romantic farce, set in a press camp on the Italian front in 1944, two women war correspondents—smart, sexy, and famous for scooping their male competitors—struggle to balance their professional lives with their love lives. The American literary tradition is replete with stories of \"men without women,\" but in \u003ci\u003eLove Goes to Press\u003c\/i\u003e Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles have created a world of \"women without men.\" Complications ensue when one of our heroines unexpectedly encounters her ex-husband, a famous writer whom she had divorced on the grounds of plagiarism.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis Bison Books edition features a preface and an updated afterword by Sandra Spanier discussing her recent archival discoveries, her experience of working with Gellhorn to publish the play for the first time, and the strong resemblance of the leading man to Gellhorn's ex-husband, Ernest Hemingway.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor's Acknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLove Goes to Press: A Comedy in Three Acts\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAfterword\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523256119576,"sku":"9780803226777","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/love-goes-to-press-a-comedy-in-three-acts-second-edition-paperback-softback-9780803226777","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}