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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, including Days of Heaven, Crimes of the Heart, Steel Magnolias, The Pelican Brief, Snow Falling on Cedars, All the Pretty Horses, Black Hawk Down, and... Read More
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Sam Shepard: Seven Plays
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1984
Price: $16.00
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... Read more >
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Fool for Love and Other Plays
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1984
Price: $16.00
Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies.
FOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1984
Price: $16.00
Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what The New Yorker dubbed "Shepard Country"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies.
FOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE... Read more >
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Buried Child
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
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 more than twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $14.00
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 more than twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Cruising Paradise
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $13.95
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 24, 1997
Price: $13.95
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood. Read more >
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The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: November 12, 2002
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Unseen Hand
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $14.95
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $14.95
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Kicking a Dead Horse
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $11.95
A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his “Great Sojourn,” things are looking bleak. His... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2008
Price: $11.95
A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his “Great Sojourn,” things are looking bleak. His... Read more >
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Great Dream of Heaven
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The God of Hell
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 12, 2005
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
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Tooth of Crime
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $12.00
One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago.
An aging rock star in a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2006
Price: $12.00
One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago.
An aging rock star in a... Read more >
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Simpatico
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $12.00
Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, "someone... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $12.00
Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, "someone... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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States of Shock, Far North, and Silent Tongue
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1993
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: May 4, 1993
Price: $15.00
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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Day out of Days
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $25.95
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $25.95
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker... Read more >
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Great Dream of Heaven
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Buried Child
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.00
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 more than twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents... Read more >
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.00
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 more than twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $12.00
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... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Simpatico
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 13, 2010
Price: $12.00
Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, "someone... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 13, 2010
Price: $12.00
Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, "someone... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Also available as a
trade paperback.
Day Out of Days
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $25.95
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker... Read more >
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $25.95
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.
A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker... Read more >
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