Bibliograph

Three war stories, David Mamet

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Three war stories, David Mamet

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Three war stories

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

862820941

Responsibility statement

David Mamet

Summary

Spanning centuries and continents, Mamet uses war and its players to explore, among other themes, redemption and forgiveness as they unfold in the context of conflict in the form of three novellas.In The Redwing, the first of the three novellas, a 19th Century Secret Service naval officer turned prisoner, then novelist and finally memoirist recounts his own transformations during the course of his service and imprisonment.The protagonist in Notes on Plain Warfare examines religion through the prism of the American Indian wars. Finely wrought, Mamet eloquently depicts the psychological brutality conflict raises in the landscape of the mind

Table Of Contents

The redwing -- Notes on Plains warfare -- The handle and the hold

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