{"product_id":"plays-9780413687500","title":"Plays","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlays\u003c\/strong\u003e by david-mamet. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780413687500.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The finest American playwright of his generation\" (Sunday Times) Glen Garry Glen Ross (also made in to a film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino) \"his superb play about real estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition\" (New Society); in Prairie du Chien a railway carriage speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide, told within shooting distance of a card-hustler and his victim. \"A short poignant study in violence and the twin drives of love and money, told with hypnotic power thorugh a travelling raconteur\" (City Limits); The Shawl shows a clairvoyant wondering whether to cheat a bereaved woman of her inheritance and \"confirms Mamets place as about the best living writer of vivid American dialogue\" (Daily Telegraph). Set in the cut-throat world of Hollywood, Speed-the-Plow sees two old-time movie collaborators manipulate the aspirations of a young woman who will do anything to attain her dream of success \"a brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity.\" (Newsweek)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955100348469,"sku":"ByrdShop_0413687503","price":51.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780413687500_25de953a-83b4-4937-8860-d70dd3c5adde.jpg?v=1778917177","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/plays-9780413687500","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}