The Cabin

Reminiscence and Diversions

David Mamet

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Vintage Books
01 February 1994

Biography: general

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Oleanna and Glengarry Glen Ross- an elegant collection of essays that reveal an autobiography of an internationally acclaimed dramatist that is both mysterious and 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.

By: David Mamet
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 204mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780679747208
ISBN 10: 0679747206
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 February 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

DAVID MAMET is the author of various plays, including American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), and Oleanna. He has written and directed the films Homicide, House of Games, and Things Change (written with Shel Silverstein), and has written the screenplays for The Untouchables and Hoffa. He is the author of tow previous collections, Writing in Restaurants and Some Freaks. Mamet lives in Massachusetts and Vermont.

Reviews for The Cabin: Reminiscence and Diversions

Enormous powers of observation...he has an ear for language. @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;-- LA Weekly@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; A very worthwhile collection...Mamet walks a line between provocation and enticement, and its precariousness almost always compels attention. @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;-- Newsday@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; A delight...there is a lean, masculine quality to his essays. @lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;-- Baltimore Sun