Publisher's Synopsis
In these three short plays middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that however briefly open windows to his present. In The Disappearance of the Jews (also included in Mamet's Three Jewish Plays) Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In Jolly Bobby's sister from the comfort of her kitchen unscrolls a list of childhood grievanc
