{"product_id":"mcteague-book-frank-norris-9780486831763","title":"Mcteague","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeal Bell's adaptation of Frank Norris's novel tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence, and finally murder as the result of jealousy and greed. Frank Norris's novel \u003cem\u003eMcTeague \u003c\/em\u003eis a panorama of the U S at the turn of the century: cowboys, gold mines, the immigrant experience, the advent of electricity and the movies. At the core is a gruesome cautionary tale, aptly retitled \u003cem\u003eGreed\u003c\/em\u003e by Erich Von Stroheim when he made a nine-hour film of it in 1923 . In adapting it anew . Neal Bell's script  tells] a story of downward mobility, about a miner turned dentist (sans diploma) who winds up defrocked and doomed in an abandoned mine. --William A Henry I, Time Bell weaves a thick, dark tapestry of themes from MCTEAGUE's epic of incidents. Socially, the focus is on the helplessness of a rough simpleton in a rapidly urbanizing and professionalizing America -- and on the determination of immigrants and bootstrap-tuggers to cling to the middle class rather than fall into the Victorian abyss of want. Psychologically, it's on the metamorphosis of McTeague's innocent ignorance into murderous rage -- and Trina's sensible shift into masochistic self-denial. Morally, it's on the life-choking consequences of treating money as an end in itself rather than a means toward fulfilling human needs. Each of these levels resonates through the adaptation's writing. --Scott Rosenberg, San Francisco Examiner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577948872977,"sku":"GOR012526723","price":3.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735216627985,"sku":"NGR9780486831763","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486831760.jpg?v=1751135600","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/mcteague-book-frank-norris-9780486831763","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}