Motel Chronicles by Shepard, Sam - 2001

City Lights Publishers, 1983-05-01. Paperback. New.

City Lights Publishers. New. BRAND NEW, GIFT QUALITY! NOT OVERSTOCKS OR MARKED UP REMAINDERS! DIRECT FROM THE PUBLISHER!

City Lights Publishers, 1983-05-01. Paperback. Like New.

City Lights Publishers, San Francisco, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Johnny Dark – Photographer. The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography taken by Johnny Dark. Photographic paperback binding with black and dark burgundy coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " ... Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes advising world of the man behind the place that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theatre. In the scattered poems and tender reflections, crazy tales and tragic stories, 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." r Rubbing of the book edges and panels. Sunning of the back strip and there is sunning to the panels. Some Chipping to the lower right-hand… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. 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 (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. ". . .essential reading. A scrapbook of short stories, autobiographical reveries, poetry and photographs, Motel Chronicles is full of verbal delights, as well as insights into its author's entire canon. Whether Mr. Shepard is reminiscing about his parents or daydreaming about cherished movies and cars of his youth, he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our West. Read in conjunction with the plays, Motel Chronicles… Read More

City Lights Books, 1983. Paperback. New. 110 pages. 8.00x5.75x0.50 inches.

City Lights Books. New. Special order direct from the distributor

City Lights Books. New. Special order item direct from the distributor

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Book club edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some scratches on the front panel.