Some Recollections of St. Ives - David Mamet

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of ** ** Glengarry Glen Ross comes ** Some 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. Ives *traces 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, S* ome 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.