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The Cryptogram
by [Mamet, David]
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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.
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Product Details
- Knopf Doubleday Publishin Brand
- Apr 18, 1995 Pub Date:
- 9780679746539 ISBN-13:
- 0679746536 ISBN-10:
- 111.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 0.28 in * 5.19 in Dimensions:
- 0 lb Weight:
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