| Sam Shepard: Seven Plays: Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, the Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West Contributor(s): Shepard, Sam (Author), Gilman, Richard (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0553346113 ISBN-13: 9780553346114 Publisher: Dial Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1984 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General |
| Dewey: 812.54 |
| LCCN: 2005281889 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.3" W x 8.24" (0.70 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
