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Glengarry Glen Ross

David Mamet · 1984

Four real estate salesmen will do anything to close deals and avoid getting fired. Mamet's ear for the rhythm of desperate, profane American speech is on full display. The Pulitzer committee gave it the prize in 1984. The film version added Alec Baldwin's "coffee is for closers" speech, but the play doesn't need it.

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