At Home at the Zoo

by Edward Albee

Overview

For the first time in one volume, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award–winning playwright Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo collects Homelife and The Zoo Story.

“An essential and heartening experience . . . If Homelife is an openhanded slap, The Zoo Story is a gut punch with a closed fist. Edward Albee is a voice unparalleled in American theater.” —New York Times

More than 50 years after penning The Zoo Story, master playwright Edward Albee wrote a prequel to this classic. Homelife contains the events in Peter’s life immediately preceding his encounter with Jerry on the park bench and is every bit as powerful as the original. We meet Ann, Peter’s wife, and see the conversation that compelled Peter to go for that fateful walk in the park.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590205242
Publisher:	The Overlook Press
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	780,267
Product dimensions:	7.68(w) x 5.36(h) x 0.32(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Edward Albee(1928-2016), his plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961–62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize, and Tony Award, 1996), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize, also available from Overlook), Three Tall Women (1994, Pulitzer Prize), and The Play About the Baby (2001, also available from Overlook). He was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 he received both the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.