Some Recollections of St. Ives

<B>From the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright of </B><I><B>Glengarry Glen Ross</B></I><B> comes </B><I><B>Some Recollections of St. Ives</B></I><B>, 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. </B><BR><BR>Written in the final years of Hollis’s life, <I>Some Recollections of St. Ives</I> 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.<BR><BR>Witty, elegant, and profoundly insightful, S<I>ome Recollections of St. Ives </I>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.