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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 confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume:
 
Ages of the Moon
Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley
Short Life of Trouble
The Unseen Hand
The Rock Garden
Chicago
Icarus’s Mother
4H Club
Fourteen Hundred Thousand
Red Cross
Cowboys #2
Forensic & The Navigators
The Holy Ghostly
Back Bog Beast Bait
Killer’s Head

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      Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
      Publication Date: 8/14/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780345802767, 978-0345802767
      ISBN10: 0345802764
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      Book Synopsis
      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 confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume:
       
      Ages of the Moon
      Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley
      Short Life of Trouble
      The Unseen Hand
      The Rock Garden
      Chicago
      Icarus’s Mother
      4H Club
      Fourteen Hundred Thousand
      Red Cross
      Cowboys #2
      Forensic & The Navigators
      The Holy Ghostly
      Back Bog Beast Bait
      Killer’s Head

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