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Mamet manages to demolish the myths...that pass for theory with regard o acting and directing. . . True and False is a revealing book of the highest order and a pleasure to read --Anthony Hopkins Hard-edged, pragmatic and idealistic. . . . Every actor or would-be actor should read this book. -- Chicago Tribune Trenchant...Meet's pared-down, occasionally cryptic prose can make powerful sense. -- The New York Times This book should be read and considered by everyone who acts. --Steve Martin

Mamet manages to demolish the myths...that pass for theory with regard o acting and directing. . . True and False is a revealing book of the highest order and a pleasure to read --Anthony Hopkins Hard-edged, pragmatic and idealistic. . . . Every actor or would-be actor should read this book. -- Chicago Tribune Trenchant...Meet's pared-down, occasionally cryptic prose can make powerful sense. -- The New York Times This book should be read and considered by everyone who acts. --Steve Martin

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David Mamet was awarded the Pulitzer prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross. His other plays and screenplays include Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Winslow Boy The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog and The Verdict, the last two of which won Academy Award nominations. He has also received an Obie Award, and has written a collection of poems, five collections of essays, and a book on acting, True and False. His first novel, The Village, was published by Faber in 1994, followed by the publication of The Old Religion in 1998.

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