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  • Great Dream of Heaven

    Stories

    by Sam Shepard ...
    In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him “the great playwright of his generation” (The New York Times).A boy watches a “remedy man” tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A woman driving her mother’s ashes across the country has a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Kicking a Dead Horse

    by Sam Shepard ...
    A solitary man digs a hole in the ground, near a dead horse. Amidst the clutter of food and equipment stands Hobart Struther, who has ridden all the way out to the middle of nowhere on a holy mission. But one day into his “Great Sojourn,” things are looking bleak. His horse has choked to death, he's miles away from civilization, and there's not a person around to talk to – other than himself. As ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Motel Chronicles

    by Sam Shepard ...
    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.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. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buried Child

    by Sam Shepard ...
    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 ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The One Inside

    by Sam Shepard ...
    The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright—a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life.This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him: in his mind he sees ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Unseen Hand

    And Other Plays

    by Sam Shepard ...
    The complete scripts to six Sam Shepard plays: The Unseen Hand, Forensic and the Navigators, The Holy Ghostly, Back Bog Beast Bait, Shaved Splits, 4-H Club. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • Spy of the First Person

    by Sam Shepard ...
    The final work from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last daysIn searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tooth of Crime

    Second Dance

    by Sam Shepard ...
    One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago.An aging rock star in a world in which entertainment and street warfare go hand in hand, Hoss must defend himself against Crow, a ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Fifteen One-Act Plays

    An expanded edition of the collection The Unseen Hand and Other Plays

    by Sam Shepard ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green

    Three Plays

    by Sam Shepard ...
    These three plays by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard are bold, explosive, and ultimately redemptive dramas propelled by family secrets and illuminated by a searching intelligence.In The Late Henry Moss–which premiered in San Francisco, starring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte–two estranged brothers confront the past as they piece together the drunken fishing expedition that preceded their father’s ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Day Out of Days

    Stories

    by Sam Shepard ...
    From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is tormented by an endless loop of Shania Twain ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Spencer Tracy Is Not Dead

    by Sam Shepard ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionThe ride to the tiny village in Mexico where he’s due to film has not been easy. The actor has to first put up with Gunther, a maniac German driver in a tuxedo, the Narcos who insist on excavating the contents of their car, the customs official in Mexico who sends him back across the border, and an embittered woman in the Mexican consulate for whom he ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD