Characters: 4 or 5 male, 4 or 5 female, plus many small parts w/doubling Scenery: Interiors and Exteriors Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the groundbreaking satiric fantasy follows the extraordinary Antrobus family down through the ages from the time of "The War" surviving flood, fire, pestilence, locusts, the ice age, the pox and the double feature, a dozen subsequent wars and as many depressions. Ultimately, they are the stuff of which heroes and buffoons are made. Their survival is a vividly theatrical testament of faith in humanity. "Wonderfully wise...A tremendously exciting and profound stage fable."-Herald Tribune
- ISBN10 0060088931
- ISBN13 9780060088934
- Publish Date 15 April 2003
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English