South of the Northeast Kingdom

First edition. Sm. 8vo., xiv, 152, [3] pp., b/w photographic pls. Quarter-bound black cloth over teal-coloured paper boards, lettered in silver to spine; patterned endpapers, deckled fore-edges. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye and Tuan Ching with a cover photograph by Howard Sokol (priced $20.00 to front flap).

A freewheeling memoir of Mamet's life on a farm in Vermont, filled with anecdotes, wry jokes, reminiscences, and dozens of his own photographs, casting a light on both his character and work. Being a volume in the National Geographic's Directions series.

"[S]timulating.... Told in a digressive style that recalls languid conversation by an embering stove.... Mamet continues to offer economically sound reading, getting twice the mileage out of half the fuel." –Keir Graff, Booklist