Mamet Plays: 3 : Glengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; The Shawl; Speed-the-Plow

"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)Author: David Mamet,author Contributors: David Mamet,author Binding: paperback Publication Date: Release Date: Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis Edition: First Edition Published/Release Date: 23 Sep 1996 Format: Paperback / softback Publisher/Studio/Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Author/Director/Artist: David Mamet Dimension (cm): 199x131x12 mm Package Dimension (cm): 11x229x193 mm Item Weight (g): 172 Package Weight (g): 130