Mamet Plays 3 Glengarry Glen Ross Prairie du Chien The ShawlSpeed-the-Plow

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"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 thorugh 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)

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780413687500
Published: September 1996

Number of pages: 192
Width: 124 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 12 mm

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC