{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard's latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma.Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank's old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they're visited by Welch, an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma, and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously long half life.From the Trade Paperback edition."}, "title": "The god of hell", "covers": [747441], "subject_places": ["Middle West"], "first_publish_date": "2005", "key": "/works/OL2081140W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL255436A"}}], "dewey_number": ["812/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Liberty", "Fiction", "Drama", "Conservatism", "Right and left (Political science)", "American drama (dramatic works by one author)", "American drama"], "genres": ["/tags/OL167T"], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:51:14.802333"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-02T20:36:27.655019"}}