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Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince's hard-drinking grandparents, who seem to have no idea who he is. Nor does his father, Tilden, a hulking former All-American footballer, or his uncle, who has lost one of his legs to a chain saw. Only the ...Show more
DAY OUT OF DAYS by SHEPARD SAM
Category: Fiction
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard's trademarks. A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnigh ...Show more
DAY OUT OF DAYS by SHEPARD SAM
Category: Fiction
From one of our most acclaimed writers: a collection of tales set mainly in the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard's trademarks. A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, ...Show more
Great Dream of Heaven by Sam Shepard
Category: unmapped
In these seventeen stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellspring that has made him one of America's most acclaimed playwrights: sex and regret; the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence; the anxious gulf that separates men and women; the even deeper gulf that separates men fr ...Show more
Motel Chronicles by Sam Shepard
Category: Fiction
"Motel Chronicles" reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, ...Show more
One Inside: A Novel by Sam Shepard
Category: Fiction
The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright--a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life. This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the dis ...Show more
Particle of Dread by Sam Shepard
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
In A Particle of Dread, Sam Shepard takes one of the most famous plays in history Oedipus Rex and transforms it into a modern American classic. In this telling, Oedipus, King of Thebes, prophesized to kill his father and marry his mother, alternates between his classical identity and that of contemporar ...Show more