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Title	:	Glengarry Glen Ross
Author	:	David Mamet
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	January 11th 1994 by Grove Press (first published January 1st 1983)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Fiction. Theatre. Classics. Literature. American. 20th Century

Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 14390 Users | 386 Reviews

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It is what I call crunch time-- the last two weeks of the year and attempting to wrap up loose ends in reading before the calendar turns a page. At last count I have five books to go and I hope I get to all five, but it will be a challenge. Before getting to those last five, I decided to get a jump start on a challenge I created for myself for next year. In addition to my Pulitzer challenge, I have decided to 'read Chicago' in 2018, selecting ten books across all genres for this challenge. These books can be memoirs, fiction, nonfiction, Pulitzer or Nobel winners, mysteries, plays, poetry, and even a personal favorite, baseball history books. I am looking forward to this challenge as it allows me to closely study my home city through literature. I guess it means I will need a new tenth book for this challenge, or make it ongoing and eventually read through a list I found, 40 books about Chicago that every Chicagoan should read. How I frame the challenge remains to be seen but it is going to be one near and dear to me and hopefully both fun and fulfilling.

In searching for books that are essentially Chicago, I came across Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, the 1984 Pulitzer winner for drama. With a script that I was able to read in an hour, I am now able to say that I read a play by Mamet, one of Chicago's leading playwrights. In this now modern classic, Mamet focuses on what he calls the cutthroat world of insurance salesmen. The cast features seven men in their forties and fifties who are all going after the big lead, the one that will net them thousands of dollars and bonuses that could mean a new Cadillac or the elusive trip to Hawaii. I found the script dated as it occurred pre internet, pre skype, and in order to make the big one, salesmen had to spend hours in their cars as they drove to potential clients homes, pitching their product to unsuspecting consumers. Now these sales pitches can take place in an office, on a phone, at a computer, saving salespeople hours of time and aggravation in commuting. As a result, the script appeared to be a touch dated, but powerful nonetheless.

In the case of Glengarry, middle aged salesmen on the verge of being laid off attempted to resell condo units at a bogus track of land in Florida. Four men in their forties and another three in their fifties fought to be the one to sell the most condos, the most tracks of land, and see their names land on the top of the monthly leader board. Seeing that sales had for the most part dropped off, the office manager Williamson had created a contest pitting each salesman against each other, hoping that these aging all star pitchmen would find one last moment of glory in their careers. Mamet shows how the business is indeed ruthless as men who had worked together for their entire careers faced off hoping that they would be the one to take the family to Hawaii or ride in a Caddy. And the sales office ended up being the dog eat dog world that Mamet had envisioned as each character whined and attempted to kiss up to the boss in hopes that he would be the favored employee when bonuses were given out at the end of the year.

Glengarry Glen Ross also won an Oscar for best picture in 1992. It was not without controversy as characters swear nonstop as their frustration level grew to high levels. Reading through the script, I noted many words not suitable for underage readers or movie goers, and, after checking, the movie version of this award winning play is indeed rated R. I found Mamet's work to be powerful and one that is more suitable on stage than in written form, especially here as the entire play is centered on human face to face interaction rather than plot development. Glengarry Glen Ross allowed me to witness a sliver of society that is slowly fading away as the world grows smaller. It is a powerful piece of literature showing the ruthlessness of salesmen, and one worthy of the awards bestowed on both the drama and movie version, and a script I would most likely enjoy the most on stage rather than film.

With 2018 a fortnight away, I am looking forward to my Read Chicago challenge. Glengarry Glen Ross was a quick introduction to this challenge and is making me look forward to other books centered in the city that I love. I hope to read at least one Pulitzer winner in each category for the challenge, so I can now cross award winning drama off of my list.

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Original Title:	Glengarry Glen Ross
ISBN:	0802130917 (ISBN13: 9780802130914)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Richard Roma, Shelley Levene, James Lingk, John Williamson, George Aaronow
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1984)

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I once heard "Glengarry Glen Ross" described as the other great American play about salesmen. In truth there are many great American plays that explore the capricious game of selling that is the soul of Capitalism. But this is, indeed, in the top two. I have always liked it more than "Death of a Salesman" but I know I'm in the minority on that and no one can deny Miller's Willy Loman. This is Mamet at the absolute peak of his powers. It doesn't read like a play so much as a transcript typed up

What's the difference, really, between making shady real estate deals and selling property to people on the financial edge, and robbing an office owned by the rich assholes who get rich on the proceeds of those shady real estate deals? One robs the poor to give to the rich and one robs from the rich out of spite. Glengarry Glen Ross is all about this question and nothing at all about this question. Its cast of characters are utterly unlikable; there is no one in the cast to sympathize with,

#20BooksOfSummer 2019Finished: 01.06.2019Genre: playRating: BConclusion:Reading time: 1 hr 30 minDialogue has a rhythm a beat the never lets up.I zipped through this clever and vicious script.In the case of Glengarry Glen Ross I think the moviemakes more impact than the play on Kindle.While reading I pictured Al Pacino (Oscar nominee Best Supp Actor 1993)Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Alan Arkin and Ed Harris...tearing each other apart!Nr 13 on List Best 50 plays in the past 100 years.#MustRead

I know that Mamet is a genius but I just don't like his tone. All seems bleak in his worlds.

DNFd at 50% and sparknoted the rest for school lol.

ROMA You think you're queer...? I'm going to tell you something: we're all queer. You think that you're a thief? So what? You get befuddled by a middle-class morality...? Get shut of it. Shut it out. You cheated on your wife...? You did it, live with it. (pause) You fuck little girls, so be it. There's an absolute morality? May be. And then what? If you think there is, then be that thing. Bad people go to hell? I don't think so. If you think that, act that way. A hell exists on earth? Yes. I

I decided to listen to this because it was short, and because I've never seen Glengarry Glen Ross, and it's one of those things in the cultural zeitgeist with which I should be familiar.But it turns out that Glengarry Glen Ross is about (white) men talking about making money, which is basically the Venn diagram of things about which I do not care.So . . . this is a bunch of men talking to each other about selling things, and how much they want to do that, and how much they love it when it's