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Simpatico
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Simpatico Soft cover - 1996

by Sam Shepard

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Set within the netherworld of thoroughbred racing, this hair-raisingly funny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of True West explores the classical themes of memory, loyalty, and restitution. Simpatico launches readers into regions where high society meets the low life, and where, as one of the main characters observes, "someone is cutting someone else's throat".

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New York: Vintage, 1996. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Fine in wrappers. As new.
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  • Title Simpatico
  • Author Sam Shepard
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage, New York
  • Date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 001007
  • ISBN 9780679763178 / 0679763171
  • Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.19 x 0.42 in (20.42 x 13.18 x 1.07 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95043451
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.509

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From the publisher

Sam Shepard has written forty-six plays, eleven 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 Shepard 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 rear cover

Carter ought to be managing his thoroughbred business is Kentucky. Instead, he is in a desolate room in Cucamonga, Nowheresville, U.S.A., trying to get back in the good graces of Vinnie, the one man who has the power to destroy him. From the beginning, Sam Shepard's Simpatico launches us into the world of horse racing, where high society meets the low life and the line between winners and losers is as treacherously thin as a razor blade.

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  • Library Journal, 06/15/1996, Page 97

About the author

SAM SHEPARD was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than fifty-five plays, three story collections, and two works of prose fiction. 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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