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Books by Sam Shepard
  | | Fool for Love and Other Plays(Reprint) by Sam Shepard, Ross Wetzsteon Paperback, 307 Pages, Published 1984 by Bantam Books ISBN-13: 978-0-553-34590-2, ISBN: 0-553-34590-7 "Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies. FOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER * ACTION * COWBOY MOUTH * MELODRAMA PLAY * SEDUCED * SUICIDE IN BbWith an Introduction ..." |
 | | Spy of the First Person(Reprint) by Sam Shepard Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56336-5, ISBN: 0-525-56336-9 "The final work from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a cond ..." |
 | | A Lie of the Mind(86th Edition) by Sam Shepard Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2002 by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0656-9, ISBN: 0-8222-0656-0 "Boy , I ' m tellin ' ya ' , that is as close to heaven as I been in a long time . MEG . ( As she rubs his feet . ) ... What ' s “ necessary ” got to do with it ? MEG . Well , I mean ... You look like you ' ve been in a war or something . BAYLOR . Just rub that ..." |
 | | True West by Mr Sam Shepard, Sam' Shepard Paperback, 71 Pages, Published 2010 by Samuel French, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-573-61728-7, ISBN: 0-573-61728-7 "Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer S ..." |
 | | Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill(1st Edition) by Sam Shepard, Catherine Music Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2001 by City Lights Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-150-3, ISBN: 0-87286-150-3 "In Fool For Love, situated at a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told.The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife, another kind of love story in the form of a comic operetta, takes a distaff view of the Southwest's legendar ..." |
 | | Cruising Paradise(1st Edition) Tales by Mr Sam Shepard Paperback, 255 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-74217-3, ISBN: 0-679-74217-4 " ピューリッツァー受賞作家、脚本家、俳優、ミュージシャン…。日本でもファンの多いスーパー・マルチタレント作家サム・シェパード、初の短編集である。 14年間に書きためたという40篇は、彩りもさまざまだ。父がその上で焼死したという黒焦げのマットレスを手に入れるため、荒涼とした風景のなか、現場のモーテル目指して車を走らせる少年の話。ある理由から傷心の俳優が、メキシコ国境の町の女性入国管理官に冷たくあしらわれ、しまいに「自分はスペンサー・トレイシーだ」と名乗る話。2人の子どもが通信販売のカタログで注文したオオカミの子を育てたあげく、線路の上に置き去りにする話。25年間、同じ銘柄のタバコを吸い続けていることを、まるで何かに所属していることの象徴ででもあるかのように誇りにするセールスマンの話…。 神秘的・魅惑的な会話文、淡々とした俳優の日記からの抜き書き、などトーンもさまざま。共通しているのは、ぜい肉をストイックなほどに削ぎ落とした男性的な文体だ。アメリカ的「男ら ..." |
 | | The One Inside(Reprint) by Sam Shepard Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-101-97438-4, ISBN: 1-101-97438-9 "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 distance between present and past. As memory overtakes him, he sees the bygone America of his childhood: the farmland and the feedlots, the railyards and the diners—and, most hauntingly, his father’s young girlfriend, with whom he also became involved, setting into mo ..." |
 | | Simpatico - Acting Edition(95th Edition) by Sam Shepard Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1995 by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0726-9, ISBN: 0-8222-0726-5 "The cast was as follows: ROSIE Diana Hardcastle SIMMS Tony Haygarth VINNIE Ciaran Hinds CARTER Sean McGinley CECILIA Janet McTeer KELLY Miranda Pleasence SIMPATICO was produced by The New York Shakespeare Festival/ Joseph Papp Public Theater (George Wolfe, Producer), in New York City, in November, 1994. It was directed by Sam Shepard; the set design was by Loy Arcenas; the costume design was by Elsa Ward; the lighting design was by ..." |
 | | Great Dream of Heaven(Reprint) Stories by Mr Sam Shepard Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70452-9, ISBN: 0-375-70452-3 "In his second collection of short fiction, Great Dream of Heaven, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard offers a resonant examination of interpersonal crisis and revelation in 18 lean tales. At times humorous, tense, and tragic, these stories often focus on the elusive search for connection and understanding, visiting characters at key moments of consciousness or detachment. Seized by compulsion or repression, many in this work ..." |
 | | Motel Chronicles(1st Edition) by Mr Sam Shepard Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2001 by City Lights Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-143-5, ISBN: 0-87286-143-0 "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, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directe ..." |
 | | Buried Child - Acting Edition(Updated) (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Mr Sam Shepard Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1997 by Dramatists Play Service ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-1511-0, ISBN: 0-8222-1511-X "A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard?s Pulitzer Prize?winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than twenty-five years ago.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 hi ..." |
 | | Fool for Love - Acting Edition(84th Edition) (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Sam Shepard Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1984 by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0415-2, ISBN: 0-8222-0415-0 "In Fool For Love, situated at a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told.The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife, another kind of love story in the form of a comic operetta, takes a distaff view of the Southwest's legendar ..." |
 | | Sam Shepard Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West) by Mr Sam Shepard, Professor Richard Gilman, Sam Sheppard, Richard Gilman, Joseph Chaikin Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1984 by Dial Press Trade Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-553-34611-4, ISBN: 0-553-34611-3 "Brilliant, prolific, uniquely American, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright Sam Separd is a major voice in contemporary theatre. And here are seven of his very best. "One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today." The New Yorker "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 exterio ..." |
 | | Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35015-5, ISBN: 0-571-35015-1 "'Sam Shepard's language is sparse and crystal clear. His words appear modest, but they have huge scope.' Wim Wenders This volume is the first collection of Sam Shepard's autobiographical fiction and poetry." |
 | | True West (Paperback) by Sam Shepard Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2018 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35369-9, ISBN: 0-571-35369-X "Sam Shephard's True West was first performed at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco, in 1980 and has since become recognised as an American classic." |
 | | The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green(1st Edition) Three Plays by Sam Shepard Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3079-8, ISBN: 1-4000-3079-X "These three plays by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard are bold, explosive, and ultimately redemptive dramas propelled by family secrets and illuminated by a searching intelligence.In The Late Henry Moss–which premiered in San Francisco, starring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte–two estranged brothers confront the past as they piece together the drunken fishing expedition that preceded their father’s death. In Eyes for Consuela, based on Octavi ..." |
 | | The Unseen Hand(Reprint) And Other Plays by Sam Shepard Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76789-3, ISBN: 0-679-76789-4 "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, fur ..." |
 | | Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, Catherine Stone Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1984 by Sam Shepard ISBN-13: 978-0-571-13365-9, ISBN: 0-571-13365-7 "'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy . . . Like ancient classical drama, too, the action is at once brief and relentless. By the end of the 90-minute play you feel you have lived through a cataclysm . . . This is a tremendous play, bleak but savagely funny, apparently naturalistic yet also resonant and dreamlike.' Daily TelegraphFool for Lo ..." |
 | | The One Inside(1st Edition) by Mr Sam Shepard, Patti Smith Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-451-49458-0, ISBN: 0-451-49458-X "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 distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him: in his mind he sees himself in a movie-set trailer, his young f ..." |
 | | Curse of the Starving Class.(Updated) (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Sam Shepard Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2010 by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0261-5, ISBN: 0-8222-0261-1 "WESTON. A what? EMMA. A lawyer. WESTON. What's a lawyer? A law man? A person of the law? (Suddenly yelling.) WHAT'S A LAWYER? EMMA. A guy named Taylor. A lawyer guy. (A long pause, as Weston stares at her drunkenly, trying to fathom it. Then he turns to Wesley.) WESTON. (To Wesley.) Taylor? You knew? WESLEY. I thought she'd be back by now. She said she was going out for a business lunch. WESTON. You knew! EMMA. Maybe they had an ac ..." |
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