Seven plays / Sam Shepard ; introduction by Richard Gilman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto : Bantam Books, c1984.Description: xxvii, 336 p. 21 cmISBN:
  • 553343300
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 3569.H394 .Sh47s 1984
Contents:
True west --Buried child --Curse of the starving class --The tooth of crime --La turista --Tongues --Savage/love.
Summary: 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 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
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Two plays written with Joseph Chaikin.

True west --Buried child --Curse of the starving class --The tooth of crime --La turista --Tongues --Savage/love.

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 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

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