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Sam Shepard

Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill

Sam Shepard

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English
City Lights Books
02 January 2001
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
In Fool For Love, situated at a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told.

The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife, another kind of love story in the form of a comic operetta, takes a distaff view of the Southwest's legendary cowpuncher and his mate Slue-foot Sue, with irreverent commentary on American heroes and heroics.

""No one knows better than Sam Shepard that the true American West is gone forever, but there may be no writer alive more gifted at reinventing it out of pure literary air."" -Frank Rich, The New York Times

""Mr. Shepard is the most deeply serious humorist of the American theater, and a poet with no use whatever for the 'poetic.' He brings fresh news of love, here and now, in all its potency and deviousness and foolishness, and of many other matters as well."" -Edith Oliver, The New Yorker

Sam Shepard (1943) is a playwright, actor, author, screen writer, and director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his playBuried Child.

In 1983, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor inThe Right Stuff.

His other famous works includeTrue West, A Lie of the Mind,and Curse of the Starving Class.
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Imprint:   City Lights Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   155g
ISBN:   9780872861503
ISBN 10:   0872861503
Pages:   150
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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