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"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) A junk shop. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business."This play is a parable about the US - not in the journalistic way...but quietly, stealthily, with all the rich interior organisation of a true work of art" (Observer)
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David Mamet's gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of different generations plan their heist. But their fates, like the nickel's worn image of the beleaguered buffalo, may have been sealed long ago. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Rich Hutchman as Donny DuBrow Josh Stamberg as Walter 'Teach' Cole Maurice Williams as Bobby Directed by Brian Kite and recorded before an audience by L.A. Theatre Works.
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David Mamet is a world-leading author, playwright and screenwriter, whose many awards include the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph Jefferson Award, Obie Award, New York Drama Critics Circle Award and Tony Award. Many of his plays are considered modern classics and include Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, Edmond, The Cryptogram and Speed the Plow.
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- PublisherGrove Press
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0394502299
- ISBN 13 9780394502298
- BindingHardcover
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American Buffalo
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American buffalo : a play
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Book Description First Edition, First Printing. Previous owner's signature. Author's first book, not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 106 pages ; 22cm. Subjects: Thieves -- Drama. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 299056
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Book Description First Edition, First Printing. Previous owner's signature. Author's first book, not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 106 pages ; 22cm. Subjects: Thieves -- Drama. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 299056
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Except for a touch of age-toning to the flaps, this is a spectacular, as new copy of the author's first book. Winner of the 1976 Obie Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American play of 1977. Seller Inventory # 396728
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