Mamet Plays: 3: Glengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; the Shawl; Speed-The-Plow
by David Mamet
ISBN-10: 0413687503
ISBN-13: 9780413687500
$22.25
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Methuen
Published on
Sep 23, 1996
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
5.08x0.47x7.80 Inches
Weight
0.35 Pounds
About the Book
''The finest American playwright of his generation' (Sunday Times) Glen Garry Glen Ross (also made in to a film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino) 'his superb play about real estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition' (New Society); in Prairie du Chien a railway carriage speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide, told within shooting distance of a card-hustler and his victim. 'A short poignant study in violence and the twin drives of love and money, told with hypnotic power through a travelling raconteur' (City Limits); The Shawl shows a clairvoyant wondering whether to cheat a bereaved woman of her inheritance and 'confirms Mamet's place as about the best living writer of vivid American dialogue' (Daily Telegraph). Set in the cut-throat world of Hollywood, Speed-the-Plow sees two old-time movie collaborators manipulate the aspirations of a young woman who will do anything to attain her dream of success a brilliant black comedy, a 'dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity'. (Newsweek)''