Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater.
Fool For Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill by Sam Shepard was also published by City Lights Publishers..
His other famous works include True West , A Lie of the Mind and Curse of the Starving Class .
In 1983, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff .
In 1979, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child .
Sam is as American as peyote, magic mushrooms, Rock and Roll, and medicine bundles.--Jack Gelber 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 the past decade and half from the works of Sam Shepard.-- Time Sam Shepard is a shaman--a New World shaman.
Shepard\'s psychological obsessions and desolate frontier iconography.--Frank Rich, New York Times If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.
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Read in conjunction with the plays, Motel Chronicles also helps demystify the origins of Mr.
Shepard is reminiscing about his parents or daydreaming about cherished movies and cars of his youth, he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our West.
Whether Mr.
A scrapbook of short stories, autobiographical reveries, poetry and photographs, Motel Chronicles is full of verbal delights, as well as insights into its author\'s entire canon. essential reading. . . .
Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
Shepard Chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist and film actor.
Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater
