Cruising Paradise: Tales - Softcover

Shepard, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679742174 ISBN 13: 9780679742173

Publisher: Vintage, 1997

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry.

The short stories, journal entries, and dialogues collected in Cruising Paradise take us from a South Dakota motel room, where a man and a woman fight bitterly and part mysteriously, to a Mexican border town, where a mortified actor charms a female bureaucrat by pretending to be Spencer Tracy. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, Sam Shepard's tales map the places where our culture is defined, while giving us our most intimate vision yet of a writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.

About this title

About the Author:

Sam Shepard was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than fifty-five plays and three story collections. As an actor, he appeared in more than sixty films, and received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for The Right Stuff. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy, and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He died in 2017.

Synopsis:

A collection of short stories explores acts of personal revelation set against the varied locales of the American landscape.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679742174
• ISBN 13: 9780679742173
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256