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Overview
If you visit Sam Shepard country, expect to find bayous, deserts, and junkyards where dreams rust alongside abandoned '51 Chevys. Prepare to meet broken gunmen and refugees from distant galaxies, slavering swamp things and California Highway Patrolmen gone high-tech and blood simple. It is a country whose creator does nothing less than renew America's myths. And sometimes he invents them from scratch. In these fourteen darkly funny, furiously energetic early works for the theater, our most audacious living playwright sets genres and archetypes spinning, with results that are utterly mesmerizing. 'It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever revea.'—Sam ShepardFourteen vintage Sam Shepard plays.
Synopsis
The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand
* Forensic and the Navigators
* The Holy Ghostly
* Back Bog Beast Bait
* Shaved Splits
* 4-H Club.
Library Journal
This duo offers a full-length play and a collection of 14 shorter dramatic works from various points in Shepard's career. As one of the best of the modern crop of American playwrights, Shepard belongs in all collections. With the current Broadway outing of his 1979 play Buried Child receiving multiple Tony Award nominations, interest in the playwright and actor should increase.
Editorials
Library Journal
This duo offers a full-length play and a collection of 14 shorter dramatic works from various points in Shepard's career. As one of the best of the modern crop of American playwrights, Shepard belongs in all collections. With the current Broadway outing of his 1979 play Buried Child receiving multiple Tony Award nominations, interest in the playwright and actor should increase.Book Details
Published
April 1, 1996
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780679767893