{"product_id":"mamet-plays-2-by-david-mamet-9780413687401","title":"Mamet Plays: 2","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe finest American playwright of his generation\u003c\/em\u003e (Sunday Times)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReunion\u003c\/em\u003e shows the meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years of separation: \"It would be hard to over-praise the way Mr Mamet suggests behind the probing, joshing family chat, an extraordinary sense of pain and loss...although the play has a strong social comment about the destructively cyclical effect of divorce, it is neither sour nor defeatist\" (Guardian).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDark Play\u003c\/em\u003e, a father tells his five-year-old daughter a story about an Indian boy and his pony \"a subtle, lyrical, dreamlike vignette\" (Star Tribune).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Woods\u003c\/em\u003e, a young man and woman spend the night in a cabin together \"a beautifully conceived love story\" (Chicago Daily News).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLakeboat\u003c\/em\u003e portrays eight crew members of a merchant ship exchanging wild fantasies about sex, gambling and violence \"Richly overheard talk...loopy, funny construction.\" (Village Voice).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEdmond\u003c\/em\u003e is an odyssey through the disturbing, suspended dark void of a contemporary New York \"it is also a technically adventurous piece pared brilliantly to the bone, highly theatrical in its scenic elisions.\" (Financial Times).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596876464364,"sku":"9780413687401","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780413687401-mamet-plays-2.jpg?v=1777943499","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/mamet-plays-2-by-david-mamet-9780413687401","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}