Some Recollections of St. Ives: A Novel [Hardcover]

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright ofGlengarry Glen RosscomesSome Recollections of St. Ives, a masterful novel masquerading as the memoir of Charles Hollis—a fictional man whose life spanned continents and conflicts, culminating in a decades-long tenure at one of America’s most storied institutions: The St. Ives School. 

Written in the final years of Hollis’s life,Some Recollections of St. Ivestraces his forty years within the institution, providing portraits of the people, politics, and parables that shaped both the man and the school. Within Hollis’s allegorical ruminations, David Mamet delivers a sharp, incisive examination of an isolated world—the St. Ives School—and its place in the wider culture.

Witty, elegant, and profoundly insightful, Some Recollections of St. Ives proves once again that Mamet is a master of language and character. Intimate yet expansive, this novel is an astute exploration of tradition and legacy—how we shape them and, in turn, how they shape us. David Mamet is America's foremost playwright. His numerous plays includeOleanna,Glengarry Glen Ross(winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award),American Buffalo,Speed-the-Plow, andRace, among many others. He has twice been nominated for an Academy Award and has written and directed ten films, includingHomicide,The Spanish Prisoner, andState and Main. In addition, he wrote the novelsThe Village,The Old Religion,Wilson, andChicago as well as many books of nonfiction, including theNew York TimesbestsellerThe Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American CultureandThe Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment. His HBO filmPhil Spectoraired in 2013 and earned him two Emmy Award n