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The cryptogram / David Mamet.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.A4345 C79 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mamet, David.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
- Summary:
- In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing - the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of danger. On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain them - or perhaps distract them. Because in the dark corners of this domestic scene, there are rustlings that none of the players want to hear. And out of things as innocuous as a shattered teapot and a ripped blanket, Mamet re-creates a child's terrifying discovery that the grownups are speaking in code, and that that code may never be breakable.
- Notes:
- "A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0679746536 :
- OCLC:
- 31738499
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