A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays
By (Author) David Mamet
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Biography and non-fiction prose
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
812.54
Paperback
432
Width 135mm, Height 216mm, Spine 29mm
525g
This is the collected prose of one of America's most provocative playwrights. Mamet assesses himself as a writer and included in this volume are autobiographical vignettes from childhood and youth describing the gamut of human emotion. David Mamet is a controversial playwright as well as film director. He is the author of "American Buffalo", "Speed the Plow", "Glengarry Glen Ross" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize), and most recently, "Oleanna". He has directed films such as "House of Games" and "Things Change".
David Mamet was awarded the Pulitzer prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross. His other plays and screenplays include Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Winslow Boy The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog and The Verdict, the last two of which won Academy Award nominations. He has also received an Obie Award, and has written a collection of poems, five collections of essays, and a book on acting, True and False. His first novel, The Village, was published by Faber in 1994, followed by the publication of The Old Religion in 1998.