The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green: Three Plays
Three Plays
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2002
Summary
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 death. In Eyes for Consuela," " based on Octavio Paz’s classic story "The Blue Bouquet," a vacationing American encounters a knife-toting Mexican bandit on a gruesome quest. And in When the World Was Green," "cowritten with Joseph Chaikin, a journalist in search of her father interviews an old man who resolved a generations-old vendetta by murdering the wrong man. Together, these plays form a powerful trio from an enduring force in American theater.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400030798 |
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| ISBN-10: | 140003079X |
| Author: | Sam Shepard |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2002 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 133mm x 204mm |
| Series: | Vintage Originals |
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Critics Review
“One of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today.” -The New Yorker “A journey through classic Shepard country that is at once familiar and heartbreakingly new.” -San Francisco Chronicle
“Shepard has many imitators, but no one to match his cunning psychological expressionism and comedic ruthlessness.” -The Village Voice
“Shepard’s work is a kind of verbal and visual jazz, which surprises you with its penetrating leaps of association and its startling voices.” -John Lahr, The New Yorker
Sam Shepard
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, and 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 t
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