A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in a mobbed-up s Windy City, Chicago is the first novel in more than two decades from David Mamet, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Wag the Dog and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross/5(). CHICAGO: A NOVEL OF PROHIBITION is the big, bold book David Mamet was born to write. This is his first novel in a generation and has a cast of characters from real life (like Al Capone) acting and reacting with those from the author's brilliant www.doorway.ru critics agree on one word to describe this blockbuster - spectacular. Chicago: A Novel of Prohibition David Mamet In his first novel in more than two decades, legendary playwright Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) picks up where his Oscar-nominated screenplay for The Untouchables left off, with a panoramic portrait of the Chicago underworld during Prohibition. Mike Hodge, veteran of the Great War, is a year-old.
David Alan Mamet is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for his exploration of masculinity. As a playwright, he received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross () and Speed-the-Plow (). Playwright Mamet returns to the scene of one of his greatest successes, the screenplay for Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, with his new novel, set in Chicago during Prohibition in the David Mamet returns to old stomping grounds in the prohibition-era crime novel Chicago. As a Chicago native, he has written about his hometown in several plays, as well as the screenplay for "The Untouchables." The crux of the novel is a murder mystery (several murders, actually).
Home The Saint Bookstore Chicago: A Novel of Prohibition. Chicago: A Novel of Prohibition by David Mamet. New; hardcover; Condition New ISBN 10 ISBN CHICAGO: A NOVEL OF PROHIBITION is the big, bold book David Mamet was born to write. This is his first novel in a generation and has a cast of characters from real life (like Al Capone) acting and reacting with those from the author's brilliant www.doorway.ru critics agree on one word to describe this blockbuster - spectacular. Mamet's latest work takes us back to Chicago during post-WWI prohibition. Mamet is primarily a playwright by profession and this work is all about capturing the authentic voices of newspapermen, gangsters, madams, and policemen. The focus, like in an Elmore Leonard novel, is on dialogue.
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