Sam Shepard: Seven Plays Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, the Tooth of Crime, la Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West |
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Author:
| Shepard, Sam |
Introduction by:
| Gilman, Richard |
ISBN: | 978-0-553-34611-4 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Bantam |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $36.99 |
Book Description:
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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 exterior landscapes of...
More DescriptionBrilliant, 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 exterior landscapes of his society."--New York Magazine
"If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and a half from the works of Sam Shepard."--Time
"Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage."--Marsha Norman, Pulitzer prizewinning author of 'Night, Mother.
"One of our best and most challenging playwrights...his plays are a form of exorcism: magical, sometimes surreal rituals that grapple with the demonic forces in the American landscape."--Newsweek
"His plays are stunning in thier originality, defiant and inscrutable."--Esquire
"Sam Shepard is phenomenal..the best practicing American playwright."--The New Republic