Sam Shepard, Author , read by Dean Cameron, Francis Guinan, Alfred Molina and Charlotte Rae. L.A. Theatre Works $24.95 (, unabridged, two CDs, 1.5 hrs., $24.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-58081-233-7
This compelling play opens in the kitchen of a modest, southwestern home that Austin, a brainy scriptwriter, has borrowed from his mother, who is traveling in Alaska. Austin is working on his latest project when his brother, Lee, turns up. They'r
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Sam Shepard, Author . Knopf $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-375-40505-1
"E.V. made no bones about it; he was not a horse whisperer by any stretch," writes Shepard (Cruising Paradise, etc.) in the first of 18 brief stories that make up his new collection. "He could fix bad horses, and when he fixed them they...
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Sam Shepard, Author . Knopf $24.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-307-26540-1
Actor and playwright Shepard strikes a world-weary note in his latest (after Great Dream of Heaven
). Though billed as a short story collection, there are poems and narratives built solely on snippets of dialogue sprinkled throughout. It's all...
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Sam Shepard, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-74217-3
The actor/ playwright's 40 tales set in the remote reaches of the U.S. and Mexico are a ""terse and wistful fiction debut,"" said PW. (July)
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Sam Shepard, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (239p) ISBN 978-0-679-41564-0
Renowned playwright and actor Shepard (Buried Child, etc.) showcases his prose skills in this terse and wistful fiction debut, comprised of 40 short tales written between 1989 and 1995 and set mostly in remote reaches of the U.S. and Mexico. Stories
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Sam Shepard. Knopf, $25.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-451-49458-0
In the longest work of fiction to date from the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright, an aged actor moves through his fragmented memories of his father, the young girl who loved him, and the vast American landscape that served as a backdrop to it all....
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Sam Shepard. Knopf, $18 (96p) ISBN 978-0-525-52156-3
This slim but potent volume, which playwright Shepard (The One Inside) finished shortly before his death in 2017, alternates two voices in a poignant, unsettling double monologue. One narrator is a man who spends most of his time sitting in a “rockin
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