Cruising Paradise: Tales - Softcover

Shepard, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749386657 ISBN 13: 9780749386658

Publisher: Minerva, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of short stories which range from snapshots of a boyhood in 1950s California, through the diaries of an actor on location, to tales of seduction in the South Dakota desert.

About this title

About the Author:

Sam Shepard has written forty-five plays, twelve of which have won Obie Awards. In 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child, and in 1984 he gained an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Other plays by Shephard include Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and A Lie of the Mind. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

From the Inside Flap:

ze-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Minerva
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0749386657
• ISBN 13: 9780749386658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256