The shawl ; and, Prairie du Chien
Subtitle: two plays
By: by David Mamet.
Contributors: Mamet, David.
Edition: 1st Grove Press ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Other titles: Prairie du Chien.
Description: "The Shawl" is about a small-time mystic out to bilk a bereaved woman of her inheritance. In "Prairie du Chien" a railroad car is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide punctuated by the camaraderie of a friendly card game exploding into a moment of menace.