The Old Neighborhood - Softcover

Mamet, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679746528 ISBN 13: 9780679746522

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

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Book by Mamet David

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"Searing...heart-piercing...haunting and original...[Mamet's] most emotionally accessible drama to date,"--The New York Times

"Elegant and beautiful...David Mamet's autobiographical play is full of laughter and lament."--The New Yorker

"[Mamet's] most personal, haunted and haunting play."--Newsday

"Riveting... luminous...beautifully rendered...a significant development in Mamet's career."--San Francisco Examiner

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In The Old Neighborhood David Mamet confirms his stature as a master of the American stage, a writer who can turn the most innocuous phrase into a lit fuse and a family reunion into a perfectly orchestrated firestorm of sympathy, yearning, and blistering authentic rage.
In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old-neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present. In "The Disappearance of the Jews," Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In the comfort of her kitchen, Bobby's sister "Jolly" unscrolls a list of childhood grievances that is at nice painful and hilarious. And the old girlfriend in "Deeny," faced with a man she once loved, finds herself obsessively free-associating on gardening, sex, and subatomic particles. Swerving from comedy to terror, from tenderness to anguish—with a swiftness that unsettles even as it strikes home—The Old Neighborhood is classic Mamet.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679746528
• ISBN 13: 9780679746522
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112