Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West)
by Shepard, Sam
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0553346113
- ISBN 13
- 9780553346114
- Seller
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Synopsis
Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than forty-five plays. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven , and he has also written the story collection Cruising Paradise , two collections of prose pieces, Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon , and Rolling Thunder Logbook , a diary of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour. As an actor he has appeared in more than thirty films, and he received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his performance in The Right Stuff . His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Shepard's plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love , and A Lie of the Mind , which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024919
- Title
- Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West)
- Author
- Shepard, Sam
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0553346113
- ISBN 13
- 9780553346114
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- DRAMA PLAYS THEATRE PLAYWRIGHT
- X weight
- 0 oz
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