Directions by David Mamet

Directions by David Mamet

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and film director shares his love for the free-thinking, progressive state of Vermont and describes its influence on his work, sharing his thoughts on the history of the region, the reasons for the state's live and let live attitude, and more.

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Directions by David Mamet

Compared to some of its New England neighbors, Vermont has seemed to long-time resident David Mamet a place of intrinsic energy and progressiveness. It lived up to the old saw that settlers came up the Connecticut River and turned right to get to New Hampshire and left to get to Vermont. Is this bi-partisan tradition of live and let live an accident of geography, the happy byproduct of 200 years of national neglect, an emanation of its Scots-Irish regional character? In exploring the ways in which his decades in Vermont have shaped his character and his work, Mamet examines how these contributory strands inform each other. He asks how does the free-thrinking tradition survive in a climate of increasing conglomeration? As the farmland, the open spaces, the wildlife environment, and thus the hunting ethos contract, what remains?
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ISBN 13 9780792269601
ISBN 10 0792269608
Title Directions
Author David Mamet
Series Directions Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher National Geographic Books
Year published 2002-10-01
Number of pages 192
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