The Cabin: Reminiscences and Diversions - Hardcover

David Mamet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679415580 ISBN 13: 9780679415589

Publisher: Turtle Bay Books: imprint of Random House, Inc., 1992

Synopsis

In a series of autobiographical essays, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright reminisces about his Chicago youth, his early years in New York, the actors with whom he has worked, and his many travels

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

dant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly 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.

From the Back Cover:

"Enormous powers of observation...he has an ear for language."

-- LA Weekly

"A very worthwhile collection...Mamet walks a line between provocation and enticement, and its precariousness almost always compels attention."

-- Newsday

"A delight...there is a lean, masculine quality to his essays."

-- Baltimore Sun

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtle Bay Books: imprint of Random House, Inc.
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679415580
• ISBN 13: 9780679415589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 157