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Sam Shepard: A Life

Sam Shepard: A Life

Winters, John J.

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Entertainment & Performing ArtsLiterary FiguresPlaywriting

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ISBN10: 1619029731
ISBN13: 9781619029736
Publisher: Counterpoint Pr
Published: Mar 20 2018
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America's foremost Renaissance man of letters. --Kelly Horan, coauthor of Devotion and Defiance

With more than fifty-five plays to his credit--including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child, an Oscar nod for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff, and an onscreen persona that's been aptly summed up as Gary Cooper in denim--Sam Shepard's impact on American theater and film ranks with the greatest playwrights and actors of the past half-century.

Sam Shepard: A Life gets to the heart of Sam Shepard, presenting a compelling and comprehensive account of his life and work.

In a new epilogue, added by the author after Shepard's untimely death in July of 2017, John J. Winters offers a glimpse into the enigmatic author's last days, when very few knew he was suffering from ALS.

An excellent biography . . . Mr. Winters is especially good on the backstage of one of Mr. Shepard's most frequently revived works, True West . . . Mr. Winters has an interesting story to tell, and he recounts it ably, bringing us close to a figure who, he admits, avoids intimacy. --The Wall Street Journal

A new, thoroughly researched biography . . . Winters does indeed capture a personality more anxious and self-doubting than previous biographers have grasped. --The Washington Post

Meticulously presents the facts of Shepard's complex life along with incisive descriptions and analyses of diverse productions of Shepard's demanding and innovative plays . . . Winters portrays Shepard as a magnetic, enigmatic, and multitalented artist drawing on a deep well of loneliness and self-questioning, keen attunement to the zeitgeist, and penetrating insight into human nature. --Booklist (starred review)

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