BOOKS - Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances
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Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances
Author: David Mamet
Year: January 1, 1997
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.2 MB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 1997
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 8.2 MB
Language: English
Make-Believe Town brings together David Mamet's acute insights into everyday life, the arts, and politics. These pieces evidence Mamet's love of language, particularly the introductory essay, and "Eight Kings and ", which celebrates the private languages of carpenters, carnival workers, and all crafts and trades, and and "The Northern Novel and ", which propounds Mamet's affection for the line of American fiction exemplified by Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser. Some of the essays are prose portraits from Mamet's life: and "Deer Hunting and " and and "The Diner and " delineate worlds far from the public eye. Make-Believe Town also contains beautifully written recollections of Mamet's early days as a writer ( and "Girl Copy and "), his start in the theater ( and "Memories of Off Broadway and "), his education as a gambler ( and "Gems From a Gambler's Bookshelf and "), and bygone days on Broadway ( and "Delsomma's and "). Mamet's incisive thoughts about public issues - support for the arts, nudity in films, the roles given Jewish characters, even the posthumous rehabilitation of Richard Nixon - round out a far-reaching collection.
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