297, [1] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright famous for Street Scene, his depiction of New York City tenement life. This work was originally serialized in The New Yorker in 1929. 'A satire on the film industry, set in the fictional land of Purilia, where behavior conforms to a standardized fashion. People have no digestive or reproductive organs, and marriage is blissful.'
