David Mamet first won recognition with his 1976 plays Sexual Perversity in Chicago and American Buffalo. In 1984, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. Among his many other acclaimed and prize-winning plays are Speed the Plow; The Cryptogram; and The Old Neighborhood. His feature film debut as a writer-director was the classic House of Games. Other films as writer-director include Things Change; Homicide; The Spanish Prisoner; State and Main; and Spartan. He has also won acclaim for numerous screenplays, including The Verdict, Wag the Dog, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Untouchables, Hoffa, and The Edge. He was the co-creator and executive producer of the CBS TV series The Unit, for which he also wrote and directed numerous episodes, and wrote and directed Phil Spector for HBO. He is the author of three novels and fourteen books of nonfiction, including Bambi Vs. Godzilla, on the Nature and Purpose of the Movie Business and The Secret Knowledge, on the Dismantling of American Culture, both of which were New York Times bestsellers, several children's plays and books, numerous magazine articles, and has collaborated on many songs with his wife, songwriter and actress Rebecca Pidgeon. A Chicago native, this is his first novel in two decades.
“All the trademarks of a Mamet production — electric dialogue and a
hurtling pace.”
*New York Times*
As if Cormac McCarthy had decamped from Southwest to
Midwest…Chicago feels like one of the great American male novelists
of the late 20th century — Updike, Mailer, Bellow, Roth—trying his
hand at writing a genre novel. But unlike those novelists’ somewhat
less sure-footed lunges…Mamet lands this with aplomb.
*Los Angeles Times*
“Splendid… a riveting crime drama in a throwback journalistic
world, a time when you could yell for a copy boy to bring you Dixie
cups for your illegal liquor. But this novel has a romantic heart,
and the emotional stakes complement the whiskey-drenched
whodunit.”
*USA Today*
“Tommy guns, bootleggers and hard-living newsmen: David Mamet adds
a vivid novel to a legendary tradition.”
*Wall Street Journal*
“Chicago is tremendous fun, with much to savour.”
*The Times Literary Supplement*
“Acclaimed playwright (Glengarry Glen Ross) and screenwriter (The
Untouchables) Mamet unpacks his literary arsenal in his first novel
in two decades…. Mamet offers a master class on dialogue…. For
readers of Elmore Leonard and Dennis Lehane.
*Booklist (starred review)*
“The story moves at a careening pace… Of a piece with character
studies such as E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime and John Sayles’ Eight Men
Out, Mamet’s book does Chicago—and organized crime—proud. An
evocative, impressive return that Mamet fans will welcome.”
*Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
“Full of twists and surprises…Mamet’s new novel is a treasure, a
piece of fictitious history entrenched in an era of violence and
love.”
*Harvard Crimson*
“The finest American writer of his generation.”
*Sunday Mail*
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