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Buried Child - Softcover

Shepard, Sam

 
9780822201625: Buried Child
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822201623 ISBN 13: 9780822201625
Publisher: Josef Weinberger Plays, 1997

Synopsis

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize--winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced in 1978.

A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince's hard-drinking grandparents, who seem to have no idea who he is. Nor does his father, Tilden, a hulking former All-American footballer, or his uncle, who has lost one of his legs to a chain saw. Only the memory of an unwanted child, buried in an undisclosed location, can hope to deliver this family from its sin.

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Review

Shepard is an uncommon playwright and uncommonly gifted. The New York Times
Wildly poetic, full of stage images and utterances replete with insidious suggestiveness. New York
Shepard is one of the most prolific playwrights, and for that matter, certainly one of the most brilliant. New York Post"

"Shepard is an uncommon playwright and uncommonly gifted." -The New York Times

"Wildly poetic, full of stage images and utterances replete with insidious suggestiveness." -New York

"Shepard is one of the most prolific playwrights, and for that matter, certainly one of the most brilliant." -New York Post

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.

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Publisher
Josef Weinberger Plays
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0822201623
ISBN 13 
9780822201625
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
75