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These short stories range from snapshots of a boyhood in 50s California, through the diaries of an actor on location and on to tales of seduction in the South Dakota desert. Sam Shepard is a prize-winning author. ... Read more

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In his latest play, States of Shock, Sam Shepard turns a bizarre anniversary party into a grisly yet hilarious reopening of the wounds of war, sex, and family betrayal. This volume also includes Shepard's screenplay for the film Far North and the forthcoming film Silent Tongue. ... Read more

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Shepard only getting better
I feel a bit silly cause I LOVE this guys plays,so i'm only gonna say Great Things about this play but if you have seen This So Called Disaster you will know a lot more about this play and the first production to be mounted for it-[directed by Shepard]...If you like his plays then this will knock your Bobby Socks Off...What can I say But READ the Damn Thing And make up your own Mind.
Once again,Mr shepard has done an awesome job writing what could be the last play about his dad,but like I say, Read It and make up your own mind. ... Read more

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In these seventeen stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellspring that has made him one of America's most acclaimed playwrights: sex and regret; the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence; the anxious gulf that separates men and women; the even deeper gulf that separates men from their true selves. Filled with cruelty, sorrow and flinty humour, Great Dream of Heaven is Shepard at his best, exercising his gifts for diamond-sharp physical description and effortless dialogue in stories that recall the themes he has explored with such ferocity and lyricism in his work for the theatre ... Read more

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Las carreteras, los coches, la soledad y la aventura empapan estas Crónicas de motel, un libro de historias rotas, fragmentos autobiograficos, relatos y poemas admirablemente servidos por una escritura rapida y escueta. ... Read more