Writing in Restaurants

Mamet, David

ISBN 10: 0670811408 / ISBN 13: 9780670811403

Published by Viking, 1986

About this Item

Signed and inscribed by Mamet on the colophon page. ; 160 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 122561

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing in Restaurants
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670811408
• ISBN 13: 9780670811403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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 , 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.

Review

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

"Writing in Restaurants is rich with anecdotes . . . composed in precise mellifluous language."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence--just what one would expect from Mamet"
--Sidney Lumet

"Graceful, forceful, hortatory essays of a profoundly moral writer of our time"
--Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune