The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations "a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless."
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Nobody does it like Mamet:
Kazerinsky destroyed this play when he made the movie "About Last Night." Read the play, enjoy the language and the irony. Mamet is the best.
SO BAD I HAD TO WRITE A REVIEW:
I wish i could give this no stars because I was very dissapointed. I got "Sexual Perversity" thinking it would be as good as the movie "About Last Night". Wow, was I wrong. The dialogue is disheveled and the only character worth any praise was Bernie. I read it and if I never saw the movie I would never know what it was about. There is no plot and the scenes are so short and abrupt you never know what you just read.
Take my advice and do not purchase this book. I am in acting and I would not even pay a... more info
Whoroscope and the Fowl Permutations:
Forget *Swingers*, forget *High Fidelity*, forget Tarantino's trash-talking hoods, David Mamet got there way before these belated young Turks. *Sexual Perversity in Chicago* is a brilliant, in-your-face series of vignettes sloshing through the muck of modern relationships. Two men and two women lock horns in a lewd scrimmage of blackly funny narcissistic power-plays, a despairing search for flitting, short-lived solace and pleasure, blasted by cruelty, impatience, tooth-and-claw feral soliloquy on why the... more info
Brilliant Wordsmith:
David Mamet proves time and time again that he has mastered the language of men and women alike. Sexual Perversity is an abrasive but honest look at the state of sex in the minds of adults during the post-collegiate and early career building years. Mamet, as in all of his plays, shows honest humanity in tangible, easily-believed characters. The language is obscene & perverse but horrificly true-to-life and natural. Working with nothing more thant stereotypes, he chisels out characters so real and so... more info
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