{"product_id":"9780679747208","title":"The Cabin; Reminiscence and Diversions","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these mordant, elegant, and often disquieting essays, the internationally acclaimed dramatist creates a sort of autobiography by strobe light, one that is both mysterious and starkly revealing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pieces in The Cabin are about places and things: the suburbs of Chicago, where as a boy David Mamet helplessly watched his stepfather terrorize his sister; New York City, where as a young man he had to eat his way through a mountain of fried matzoh to earn a night of sexual bliss. They are about guns, campaign buttons, and a cabin in the Vermont woods that stinks of wood smoke and kerosene — and about their associations of pleasure, menace, and regret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resulting volume may be compared to the plays that have made Mamet famous: it is finely crafted and deftly timed, and its precise language carries an enormous weight of feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025010245872,"sku":"9780679747208","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679747208_p0.jpg?v=1763607982","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679747208","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}