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Seven Plays

by Sam Shepard

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ISBN13: 9780553346114
ISBN10: 0553346113
Condition: Standard
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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 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

Table of Contents

True West — Buried child — Curse of the starving class — The tooth of crime — La turista — Tongues — Savage/Love.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780553346114
Subtitle:
Seven Plays
Introduction:
Gilman, Richard
Introduction:
Gilman, Richard
Author:
Sherpard
Author:
Shepard, Sam
Other:
Chaikin, Joseph
Publisher:
Dial Press
Location:
Toronto ;
Subject:
American
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Bantam trade ed.
Series Volume:
Contribution no. 31
Publication Date:
May 1984
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
368
Dimensions:
8.24x5.30x1.00 in. .70 lbs.

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