David Mamet: A Life
Jan 2027 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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This definitive biography of David Mamet offers a fascinating portrait of one of America's most celebrated playwrights, with unique insight into Mamet's writing and personal life.
The profane, prolific, and provocative playwright David Mamet has not received a full-length biography in over twenty years.
David Mamet: A Life fills that gap. This definitive book offers a unique portrait of America's most celebrated playwright, providing comprehensive, in-depth coverage of Mamet’s private, public, and working life.
Mamet is one of those unusual individuals who, in combining their art and politics, has moved from being an artistic liberal figure to one of the few conservatives working in contemporary theater and film today.
Surprisingly, there has been only one biography of Mamet. This book sheds fresh light on him to show that what made him unique as an artist was the close relationship between his ethnicity and religion and his writing. His work became so closely intertwined with his Jewishness and Judaism that they formed the backbone of his existence and thinking.
Revealingly, this immersive biography will explore the ethnicity, religion, and politics of this writer who created some of the twentieth century’s most important works of art.
The profane, prolific, and provocative playwright David Mamet has not received a full-length biography in over twenty years.
David Mamet: A Life fills that gap. This definitive book offers a unique portrait of America's most celebrated playwright, providing comprehensive, in-depth coverage of Mamet’s private, public, and working life.
Mamet is one of those unusual individuals who, in combining their art and politics, has moved from being an artistic liberal figure to one of the few conservatives working in contemporary theater and film today.
Surprisingly, there has been only one biography of Mamet. This book sheds fresh light on him to show that what made him unique as an artist was the close relationship between his ethnicity and religion and his writing. His work became so closely intertwined with his Jewishness and Judaism that they formed the backbone of his existence and thinking.
Revealingly, this immersive biography will explore the ethnicity, religion, and politics of this writer who created some of the twentieth century’s most important works of art.
This definitive biography of David Mamet offers a fascinating portrait of one of America's most celebrated playwrights, with unique insight into Mamet's writing and personal life.
The profane, prolific, and provocative playwright David Mamet has not received a full-length biography in over twent...
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About the author
Nathan Abrams was educated at Oxford and Birmingham Universities, earning a PhD in American Studies. After teaching at various institutions across Britain, he is currently a professor of film at Bangor University in Wales. Abrams is the author/editor of many books, most recently Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual; Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of his Final Film, and Kubrick: An Odyssey (which is available from Pegasus Books).
Nathan Abrams was educated at Oxford and Birmingham Universities, earning a PhD in American Studies. After teaching at various institutions across Britain, he is currently a professor of film at Bangor University in Wales. Abrams is the author/editor of many books, most recently Stanley Kubrick: ...
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