American Buffalo: A Drama in Two Acts
- ISBN-10
- 0573640238
- ISBN-13
- 9780573640230
- Series
- American Buffalo
- Category
- American drama
- Pages
- 92
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-10-26
- Publisher
- Samuel French, Inc.
- Author
- David Mamet
Description
In a Chicago junk shop three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable "Buffalo nickel". These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitmate free enterprise. But the reality of the three--Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing; and "Teach"; a violently paranoid braggart--is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.
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