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True west : Sam Shepard's life, work, and times / Robert Greenfield.

Greenfield, Robert, (author.).

Summary:
"An intimate portrait of the iconic playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard, whose wide-ranging and enduring body of work places him at the center of the American canon, from an award-winning biographer. True West is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those who knew him best. This sweeping biography charts Shepard's long and complicated journey from a small town in southern California to his standing as an internationally known playwright and movie star. The son of an alcoholic father, Shepard crafted a public persona as an authentic American archetype: the loner, the cowboy, the drifter, a stranger in a strange land. Despite his great critical and financial success, he seemed, like so many of his characters, to remain perpetually dispossessed. Much like Robert Greenfield's biographies of Jerry Garcia and Timothy Leary, this book delves deeply into Shepard's life as well as the ways in which his work illuminates it. True West takes readers through the world of downtown theater in lower Manhattan in the early sixties, the jazz scene at the Village Gate, fringe theatre in London in the seventies, Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder tour, the making of classic films like Zabriskie Point, Days of Heaven, and The Right Stuff, and Broadway productions of Buried Child, True West, and Fool for Love. For this definitive biography, Greenfield interviewed dozens of people who knew Shepard well, many of whom had never before spoken on the record about him. While exploring his relationships with Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange across the long arc of his brilliant career, Greenfield makes the case for Shepard not just as a great American writer but a unique figure who first brought the sensibility of rock 'n' roll to serious theater"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525575955
  • ISBN: 0525575952
  • Physical Description: xii, 432 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017.
Dramatists, American > 20th century > Biography.
Actors > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 16 of 16 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 16 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 92 SHEPARD (Text) 50686016293370 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 812.54 SHE (Text) 33240005163251 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library B She (Text)
Memorial: In Memoriam of Charles M. Flaig
00158486 ADULT Biography Available -
Cambria County Library 812.54 S547G (Text) 85131001872861 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Carroll Valley Library BIOG SHEP-S (Text)
Endowment: Luene R. Rice Named Endowment, 2023
35740635941248 New Nonfiction Available -
Exeter Community Library SHE (Text) 33249025532510 Biography Available -
Galeton Public Library B GRE (Text) 30243000379321 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 921 SHEPARD (Text) 92526304 GFWM Main Room Available -
Highland Community Library 812.54 GRE (Text) 35610001014203 HGHM Non-Fiction Available -
Martin Library Adults Shepard Biography (Text) 33454005931381 2nd Floor Available -


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