{"product_id":"marjorie-prime-tcg-edition-by-jordan-harrison-9781559365246","title":"Marjorie Prime (TCG Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, and Tim Robbins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarjorie Prime\u003c\/em\u003e is described as \"an elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama. \u003cem\u003eMarjorie Prime\u003c\/em\u003e operates by stealth... at some point, you realize that it's been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts... It keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it.\" – Ben Brantley, \u003cspan\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant... A startling and profound new drama.\" – Jesse Green, \u003cspan\u003eNew York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Memory is an essential element of life—crucial to thought, feeling, progress, identity. But it also comes into play with particular power and meaning after someone who has been loved dies. And it is this tension between life and death—with memory functioning as connective tissue—that animates Jordan Harrison's subtly shattering, \u003cem\u003eMarjorie Prime\u003c\/em\u003e.\" – Hedy Weiss, \u003cspan\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jordan Harrison's play has all the hallmarks of the best science fiction; it's clever in conceit, alive with humour, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out.\" – Rollo Romig, \u003cspan\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith help from an intriguingly innovative technology in a future not far from our present, Marjorie examines her past, sometimes replacing her realities with idealised memories. Through deeply drawn characters—both real and in the form of artificial intelligence companions, or \"Primes\"—Harrison burrows into troubling questions of the digital age: What would we remember, and what would we forget, given the power of authorship? Will we be any less human, once computers know us better than we know ourselves?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJordan Harrison grew up on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. His plays include \u003cem\u003eMaple and Vine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Grown-Up\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDoris to Darlene\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmazons and Their Men\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFinn in the Underworld\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAct a Lady\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKid-Simple\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eFutura\u003c\/em\u003e. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, and the Horton Foote Prize, among other awards. He was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for \u003cem\u003eMarjorie Prime\u003c\/em\u003e. A graduate of the Brown MFA program, Harrison is a writer-producer for the Netflix original series \u003cem\u003eOrange is the New Black\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596886032620,"sku":"9781559365246","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/b60117d2aa74c470df41e5acfb7b25ad.jpg?v=1777955554","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/marjorie-prime-tcg-edition-by-jordan-harrison-9781559365246","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}