Glengarry Glen Ross ; Prairie du Chien ; The shawl ; Speed-the-plow
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Glengarry Glen Ross ; Prairie du Chien ; The shawl ; Speed-the-plow
（Methuen Drama contemporary dramatists, Plays / David Mamet ; 3）
Methuen Drama, 2012
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Plays : 3
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"This collection first published in Great Britain in 1996 by Methuen Drama. Reprinted by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021"--T.p. verso
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Description
"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)
Table of Contents
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Prairie du Chien
- The Shawl
- Speed-the-Plow
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