David Mamet

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Oregon

A Novel

A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago—a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better—by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge—veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry—probably shouldn’t have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. In Chicago, David Mamet has created a bracing, kaleidoscopic page-turner that roars through the Windy City’s underground on its way to a thunderclap of a conclusion. Here is not only his first novel in more than two decades, but the book he has been building to for his whole career. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with actual figures of the era, suffused with trademark "Mamet Speak," richness of voice, pace, and brio, and exploring—as no other writer can—questions of honor, deceit, revenge, and devotion, Chicago is that rarest of literary creations: a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan.

Chicago

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

One of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting with these words: invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. Acting schools, “interpretation,” “sense memory,” “The Method”—David Mamet takes a jackhammer to the idols of contemporary acting, while revealing the true heroism and nobility of the craft. He shows actors how to undertake auditions and rehearsals, deal with agents and directors, engage audiences, and stay faithful to the script, while rejecting the temptations that seduce so many of their colleagues. Bracing in its clarity, exhilarating in its common sense, True and False is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as it is inspiring.

True and False

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Play by the author of Speed-the-Plow and Glengarry Glen Ross

Pennsylvania

A Play

In a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.

Oleanna

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First edition paperback, 1988. Unbroken spine, never read. Slight shelf wear. Madonna and other Broadway cast featured on the cover. 

New York

Speed-the-Plow's Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's astonishingly productive career. "By turns hilarious and chilling....the culmination of this playwright's work to date....Riveting theater."-Frank Rich, New York Times; "A brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity and another tone poem by our foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy... On its deepest level it belongs with the darker disclosures of movie-biz pathology like Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon. In a sense Speed-the-Plow distills all of these to a stark quintessence: there's hardly a line in it that isn't somehow insanely funny or scarily insane... [It is a] scathingly comic play."-Jack Kroll, Newsweek

Speed-the-Plow

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Massachusetts

A group of ruthless real estate salesmen try to sell worthless land in Florida to innocent buyers

Glengarry Glen Ross

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Minnesota

The noted playwright offers a novel about life in a secluded, mysterious, and complex New England town

The Village

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Washington

And just who does Ginger think she is?"--BOOK JACKET.

Wilson: a Consideration of the Sources

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Ex-library copy with typical internal stamps/markings; used, well-worn copy

Three crooks in a junk shop plot to steal a coin collection in this award-winning drama by an acclaimed new American playwright.

American Buffalo

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Vermont

"Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht"
--Mike Nichols

A collection of essays from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet adressing many issues in contemporary American theater

Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it.

Writing in Restaurants

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An American Fable and Mr. Happiness: Two Plays

The Water Engine

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North Carolina

The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air."

The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates.

In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity which is now an existential threat to the West.

A broad-ranging journey through history, the Bible, and literature, RECESSIONAL examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the United States in the last generation. By screaming down freedom of thought and expression, Mamet explains, we kill invention and democracy - the foundations of security and growth.

A wickedly funny, wistful and wry appeal to the free-thinking citizen, RECESSIONAL is a vital warning that if we don't confront the cultural thuggery now, the commissars and their dupes will transform the Land of the Free into the dictatorship at which they aim.

Recessional

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Arizona

The book is in good condition but the dust jacket has a tear in the top left corner. Please refer to the pictures.
“Mamet is well on the way to adding the fiction venue to his mastery of writing for the stage and screen.” - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 

Georgia

As a grandmother and her young granddaughter work together at the kitchen table, preparing the traditional Passover recipes, the elderly woman reflects on their family's traumatic past

Passover

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Hardcover book in very good used condition 

In personal, intimate recollections of his childhood, and in clear-sighted observations on the public scene, David Mamet reflects on this world and tries to make sense of it. From a gentle portrait of a Memorial Day parade in Cabot, Vermont, to an offbeat vision of Disneyland as a totalitarian state, Mamet displays in this book all the wit, intelligence, and honesty that has distinguished him as one of the most original and talented writers in America today. ISBN 0-670-82933-1: $16.95.

Some Freaks

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Two Plays

"Two young couples sort out their sex lives in a world of office files and singles bars, and two old men sitting on a park bench reveal their attitudes toward life while discussing the mating habits of ducks."--Provided by publisher.

Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations

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A masterclass on the art of directing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and Oscar and Tony-nominated) writer of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed the Plow, The Verdict, and Wag the Dog Calling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies like House of Games, State and Main, and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing—from script to cutting room—to show the many tasks directors undertake in reaching their prime objective: presenting a story that will be understood by the audience and has the power to be both surprising and inevitable at the same time. Based on a series of classes Mamet taught at Columbia University's film school, On Directing Film will be indispensible not only to students but to anyone interested in an overview of the craft of filmmaking. "Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence—just what one would expect from Mamet." —Sidney Lumet, Academy Award-nominated director of 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, and The Verdict

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