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[...]
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard's plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human[...]
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[...]
"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 ha[...]
(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 .[...]
This book argues that a consideration of Sam Shepard's plays in the context of visual and theoretical Surrealism significantly succours our understanding of his experimental approach. Emma Creedon's study reveals how Shepard's plays rely on a veneer of realism that the playwright then actively explo[...]
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[...]
Understanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America's most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. During his nearly fifty-year career as a writer, actor, director, and producer, Shepard has consistently f[...]
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 [...]
"John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America's foremost Renaissance man of letters." --Kelly Horan, coauthor of Devotion and Defiance The first comprehensive biography of Sam Shepard in 30 years draws on newly availa[...]
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 [...]