Buried Child
by Shepard, Sam
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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Synopsis
Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of more than forty-five plays. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven , and he has also written the story collection Cruising Paradise , two collections of prose pieces, Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon , and Rolling Thunder Logbook , a diary of Bob Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour. As an actor he has appeared in more than thirty films, including Days of Heaven , Crimes of the Heart , Steel Magnolias , The Pelican Brief , Snow Falling on Cedars , All the Pretty Horses , Black Hawk Down , and The Notebook . He received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his performance in The Right Stuff . His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988 and co-wrote and starred in Wim Wenders’ Don’t Come Knocking in 2005. Shepard’s plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include The God of Hell , The Late Henry Moss , Simpatico , Curse of the Starving Class , True West , Fool for Love , and A Lie of the Mind , which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. He lives in New York.
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- Seller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 049377
- Title
- Buried Child
- Author
- Shepard, Sam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Urizen Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1979; Sam Shepard; Plays; Play; Theater; Theatre; Stage; Literature; Book Club Edition.
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- Theater & Film;
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