Dinner with Friends - Donald Margulies

A funny yet bittersweet examination of the married lives of two couples who have been extremely close for dozens of years, Dinner With Friends keeps changing its perspective to show how one couple's breakup can have an equally devastating effect on another's stability. n nWinner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Draman n nn nFilled with humor, warmth, insight and wisdom, Dinner with Friends is a modern day masterpiece on the destruction of today's marriage. Through Margulies's flawless use of language and his ability to convey the truest of dialogue and characterization, we watch, as the two couples do, our closest friends going through a wrenching breakup.

Not only does he create vivid detail of a marriage in decline, he also brilliantly depicts the couple's closest friends, and how this new mirror to their own marriage sends them through a whirlwind of raw emotion and self-reflection.n