The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Author | : Neil Simon |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1972 |
ISBN-10 | : 0573614296 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780573614293 |
Rating | : 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 4 females Scenery: Interior Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things cant seem to get any worse ... then hes robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and its the best thing that ever happened to him."--Back cover.