CRUISING PARADISE
Tales by Sam Shepard
A boy travels to a desolate roadside inn to retrieve the charred mattress on which his drunken father burned to death. A mortified actor is stonewalled by a female bureaucrat in a Mexican border town—until he identifies himself as Spencer Tracy. A man and a woman quarrel desperately in a South Dakota motel room and part company for reasons that remain mysterious to them both. Written with the terse lyricism that has become his trademark, Sam Shepard’s tales are at once acts of personal revelation and signposts to an American landscape shaped by violence, loss, and regret. Together they present their author’s singular vision of ancestry and childhood, sexual passion and betrayal, family and fame, in a voice that is spare and quintessentially American.
Fiction/0-679-41564-5
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THE UNSEEN HAND
and Other Plays
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SIMPATICO
A Play in Three Acts
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STATES OF SHOCK, FAR NORTH, SILENT TONGUE
A Play and Two Screenplays
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