Fool for Love and Other Plays
by Sam Shepard
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A collection of eight plays by Pulitzer prize-winning author Sam Shepard.Tags
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Sam Shepherd is the epitome of an American playwright. His plays take place in the modern west, and deal with people who are not the "beautiful" people we so often see in movies and on TV. He shows humanity with all its warts. The plays in this book range from realistic to surreal and absurdist, but even within his realistic plays there is an element of the absurd. The characters are just slightly outside of believable, but not so far out that it is impossible to suspend disbelief.
These plays range from the surreal to the all too real...: With this collection, Shepard demonstrates his remarkable ability to portray America in the realistic ways most contemporary authors/playwrights/poets are afraid to do. The dialogue is captivating and moving, and the action is fast-paced. Definetely an excellent buy.
Fool for Love
Angel City
Geographyof a Horse Dreamer
Action
Cowboy Mouth
Melodrama Play
Seduced
Suicide in B[flat]
Angel City
Geographyof a Horse Dreamer
Action
Cowboy Mouth
Melodrama Play
Seduced
Suicide in B[flat]
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Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III on an army base in Illinois on November 5, 1943. He briefly studied agriculture at Mount San Antonio College, but dropped out to move to New York in 1962. He wrote more than 55 plays during his lifetime. His first play was produced off-off-Broadway when he was 19 years old and he won the first of his show more 8 Obie Awards when he was 23 years old. His plays included Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, The Late Henry Moss, Heartless, and A Particle of Dread. He received the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1978. He was an actor for both film and television. His films included Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, and Baby Boom. He also appeared in the Netflix series Bloodline. He wrote or co-wrote several screenplays including Far North and Renaldo and Clara with Bob Dylan. He also wrote songs with John Cale and Bob Dylan including Brownsville Girl. He wrote several books including Cruising Paradise and Motel Chronicles. He died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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