THE CABIN: Reminiscence and Diversions

Mamet, David

ISBN 10: 0679415580 / ISBN 13: 9780679415589

Edité par Turtle Bay Books, New York, 1992

A propos de cet article

This pleasurable amalgam of travelogue and reminiscence explores Mamet's early years in Chicago and New York and his current life as a successful playwright. Signed by David Mamet on the title page. Octavo. A fine copy in a nearly fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

N° de réf. du vendeur 66016

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE CABIN: Reminiscence and Diversions
• Éditeur: Turtle Bay Books, New York
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0679415580
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780679415589
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near fine
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
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Synopsis

. 8vo pp. 158 Rilegato mezza tela, sovracoperta (half-cloth binding, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)

Présentation de l'éditeur

In these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.

The pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David Mamet helplessly watched his stepfather terrorize his sister; New York City, where as a young man he had to eat his way through a mountain of fried matzoh to earn a night of sexual bliss. They are about guns, campaign buttons, and a cabin in the Vermont woods that stinks of wood smoke and kerosene -- and about their associations of pleasure, menace, and regret.

The resulting volume may be compared to the plays that have made Mamet famous: it is finely crafted and deftly timed, and its precise language carries an enormous weight of feeling.