Sam Shepard: Seven Plays by Sam Shepard - ISBN: 9780553346114
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Shepard’s best plays: raw, American, and unforgettable theatrical experiences.

Sam Shepard: Seven Plays

Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West

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  • Paperback

    368 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 1999

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Summary

Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Shepard is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best.

“The greatest American playwright of his generation…the most inventive in language and revolutionary in craft, he is the writer whose work most accurately maps the interior and exterior landscapes of his society.” - New York Magazine

“If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed p…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780553346114
ISBN-10:0553346113
Author:Sam Shepard, Richard Gilman
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Random House USA Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:31 March 1999
Weight:312g
Dimensions:208mm x 134mm x 26mm
About The Author

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than forty-five plays. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven, and he has also written the story collection Cruising Paradise, two collections of prose pieces, Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon, and Rolling Thunder Logbook, a diary of Bob Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour. As an actor he has appeared in more than thirty films, and he received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Shepard’s plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind, which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

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