Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play
Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play
by David Mamet.
First published 1983.
Paperback.
ISBN-13: 978-0802130914
“Who needs caffeine when you’ve got Glengarry
Glen Ross? … David Mamet’s play about a dog-eat-dog real estate office in
Chicago feels like having espresso pumped directly into your bloodstream…. Mr.
Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still surpassed by
any other dramatist.” – New York Times.
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
as well as the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best American Play and
the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and
Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the most
celebrated and widely performed plays of recent years. It is a scalding comedy
is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living
by pushing plots of land onto reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for
their fair share of the American dream. Here, Mamet is at his very best,
writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough people who cajole,
connive, wheel and deal for a piece of the action an existence where closing a
sale can mean a brand-new Cadillac, but losing one can mean losing it
everything.