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A Whore's Profession. Notes and Essays

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#270872
Titel	A Whore's Profession. Notes and Essays
Auteur	Mamet, David
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London, Faber and Faber
Jaar van uitgave	1994
ISBN10	0571170765
ISBN13	9780571170760
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	A Whore's Profession brings together, for the first time, David Mamet's acclaimed volumes of notes and essays, including, The Cabin, Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks and On Directing Film. Poignant, intimate, insightful and witty by turns, these writings are an essential accompaniment for David Mamet's plays, and an education for anyone interested in theatre, film, and writing. In these wise, revealing, and endlessly amusing pieces, David Mamet touches upon many aspects of his life as a writer. In Writing in Restaurants he reflects modestly on his career, while Some Freaks discourses loudly and entertainingly on aspects of contemporary culture - like the movies, Disneyland and on being a tourist. On Directing Film shows his ebullient and practical approach to his own film-making. Cent... (Lees verder)ral to these essays is Mamet's own work as a writer, and it is in The Cabin that Mamet comes closest to defining himself. Included are autobiographical vignettes from childhood and youth describing the gamut of human emotion, from childhood fear to adult nostalgia in the re-creation of the past.
Pagina's	412
Conditie	Goed
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