A review by bennought
American Buffalo by David Mamet

4.0

One of Mamet's earliest plays, this is a fantastic proetical work exploring the shenanigans of three deadbeat Chicagoans who are planning a small-time theft of a Buffalo nickel. Loved the production I saw of it at Steppenwolf in the winter of 2010-11, jumped at the opportunity to get a copy off of Bookmooch and experience it as a piece of literature instead. Mamet's dialogue is both disturbingly natural, and unnaturally lyrical at the same time.