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  • Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill

    by Sam Shepard ...
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spy of the First Person

    by Sam Shepard ...
    The final work from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last daysIn 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Motel Chronicles

    by Sam Shepard ...
    Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living 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 ... Read more

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  • The One Inside

    by Sam Shepard ...
    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 ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Buried Child

    by Sam Shepard ...
    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 in 1978.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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Great Dream of Heaven

    Stories

    by Sam Shepard ...
    In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him “the great playwright of his generation” (The New York Times).A boy watches a “remedy man” tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A woman driving her mother’s ashes across the country has a ... Read more

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  • Two Prospectors

    The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark

    by Sam Shepard, Johnny Dark ...
    Series series Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
    This collection shares decades of correspondence between the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of his closest friends—including personal photos.One of America's leading dramatists, as well as an accomplished actor, screenwriter, and director, Sam Shepard's legacy includes immortal plays like True West and Buried Child, as well as memorable film roles, including his Academy Award-nominated ... Read more

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  • The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green

    Three Plays

    by Sam Shepard ...
    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 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Unseen Hand

    And Other Plays

    by Sam Shepard ...
    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. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Spencer Tracy Is Not Dead

    by Sam Shepard ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionThe ride to the tiny village in Mexico where he’s due to film has not been easy. The actor has to first put up with Gunther, a maniac German driver in a tuxedo, the Narcos who insist on excavating the contents of their car, the customs official in Mexico who sends him back across the border, and an embittered woman in the Mexican consulate for whom he ... Read more

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  • Fifteen One-Act Plays

    An expanded edition of the collection The Unseen Hand and Other Plays

    by Sam Shepard ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    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 relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays ... Read more

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  • The God of Hell

    by Sam Shepard ...
    Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma.Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank’s old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project ... Read more

    $4.99 USD