The Cryptogram Paperback - 1995
by David Mamet
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- Paperback
In this gripping family tragedy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross endows ordinary language with Hitchcockian menace and Kafkaesque powers of disorientation. This intriguing play 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 dangers.
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- Title The Cryptogram
- Author David Mamet
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0679746536I4N00
- ISBN 9780679746539 / 0679746536
- Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.2 x 0.37 in (20.27 x 13.21 x 0.94 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94046518
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
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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.