Make-believe town
Subtitle: essays and remembrances
By: by David Mamet.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780316550352
Description: A provocative collection of essays ranges from memories of his early life as a writer and days on Broadway to polemics on public support for the arts, nudity in films, Jews and Hollywood, and the rehabilitation of Richard Nixon.
Notes: "Back Bay books."
Table of contents: title: Eight kings; title: Gems from a gambler's bookshelf; title: Sex camp; title: Memories of off Broadway; title: Homespun fop; title: Girl copy; title: Greg Mosher; title: Delsomma's; title: The diner; title: The northern novel; title: Deer hunting; title: Between men and women; title: The screenplay; title: "It's necessary for the scene"; title: The Jew for export; title: Art as a helping profession; title: Demagoguery; title: Self-help; title: The recrudescence of the swimming-pool joke; title: Cleansed by death; title: Make-believe town; title: Memory; title: Minority rights; title: In every generation.