One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, "Tooth of Crime "is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago.
An aging rock star in a worl[...]

This comprehensive analysis traces Sam Shepard?s career from his experimental one-act plays of the 1960s to the 1994 play Simpatico. Curse of the Starving Class, Buried Child, True West, Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind are all examined in depth. Concentrating on his playwriting, this book charts[...]

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the re[...]

(Applause Books). Sam Shepard ranks as one of America's most celebrated dramatists. This collection of four two-act plays by the Pulitzer Prize winner includes: La Turista, The Tooth of the Crime, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, and Operation Sidewinder .[...]

Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade's 'Great American Playwright', Sam Shepard continued to produce work in a wide array of media including short prose, films, plays, performances and screenplays until his death in 2017. Like Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams in their autumnal years[...]

With more than fifty-five plays to his credit--including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child--an Oscar nod for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff, and an onscreen persona that's been aptly summed up as -Gary Cooper in denim, - Sam Shepard's impact on American theater and film [...]

In the Autumn of 1975 when America was 'festering with Bicentennial madness', the author and his Rolling Thunder Review - a rag-tag variety show that he envisioned as a travelling gypsy circus - toured 22 cities across the Northeast US. This title captures the camaraderie, isolation, head games and [...]