Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances Paperback - 1997
by David Mamet
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My house was renovated by two German craftsmen.
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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, "Eight Kings", which celebrates the private languages of carpenters, carnival workers, and all crafts and trades, and "The Northern Novel", 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: "Deer Hunting" and "The Diner" delineate worlds far from the public eye. Make-Believe Town also contains beautifully written recollections of Mamet's early days as a writer ("Girl Copy"), his start in the theater ("Memories of Off Broadway"), his education as a gambler ("Gems From a Gambler's Bookshelf"), and bygone days on Broadway ("Delsomma's"). 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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- Title Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances
- Author David Mamet
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition Th
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston
- Date 1997-01-01
- ISBN 9780316550352 / 0316550353
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.54 x 0.54 in (21.69 x 14.07 x 1.37 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95053147
- Dewey Decimal Code 814.54
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