Description
Title: Cryptogram
Author: David Mamet
ISBN: 0679746536
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: FIRST VINTAGE EDITION
Number of Pages: 111
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : 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.
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