{"product_id":"fool-for-love-and-other-plays-angel-city-geography-of-a-horse-dreamer-action-cowboy-mouth-melodrama-play-seduced-suicide-in-b-flat-9780553345902","title":"Fool for Love and Other Plays: Angel City, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Action, Cowboy Mouth, Melodrama Play, Seduced, Suicide in B Flat","description":"Here are eight of Pulitzer-prizewinning Sam Shepard's most stunning plays. This brilliant American dramatist creates what \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e dubbed \"Shepard Country\"--a landscape of the imagination, a unique theatrical experience that captures our culture and consciouness, our fears and fantasies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFOOL FOR LOVE * ANGEL CITY * GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER * ACTION * COWBOY MOUTH * MELODRAMA PLAY * SEDUCED * SUICIDE IN Bb \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an Introduction by Ross Wetzsteon \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sam Shepard is phenomenal...the best practicing American playwright.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sam Shepard is the most exciting presence in the movie world and one of the most gifted writers ever to work on the American stage.\" --Marsha Norman \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The most ruthlessly experimental and uncompromising of today's young writers.\" --John Lahr \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sam Shepard fills the role of professional playwright as a good ballet dancer or acrobat fulfills his role in performance. That is, he always delivers, he executes feats of dexterity and technical difficulty that an untrained person could not, and makes them seem easy.\" --Michael Feingold, \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most original, prolific, and gifted dramatists at work today.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Increasingly recognized as one of the more significant dramatists in the English-speaking world.\" --Charles R. Bachman, \u003ci\u003eModern Drama \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam 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 \u003cb\u003eGreat Dream of Heaven\u003c\/b\u003e, and he has also written the story collection \u003cb\u003eCruising Paradise\u003c\/b\u003e, two collections of prose pieces, \u003cb\u003eMotel Chronicles\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHawk Moon\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eRolling Thunder Logbook\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Right Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e. His screenplay for \u003ci\u003eParis, Texas\u003c\/i\u003e won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film \u003ci\u003eFar North\u003c\/i\u003e in 1988. Shepard's plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include \u003cb\u003eBuried Child\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Late Henry Moss\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSimpatico\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCurse of the Starving Class\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eTrue West\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eFool for Love\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eA Lie of the Mind\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dial Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50669087359250,"sku":"9780553345902","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ebc678f7-9e55-45b4-9a65-a1babd18cfe2.jpg?v=1733755480","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fool-for-love-and-other-plays-angel-city-geography-of-a-horse-dreamer-action-cowboy-mouth-melodrama-play-seduced-suicide-in-b-flat-9780553345902","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}