| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 383 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Southwestern Writers Collection Series |
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Southwestern Writers Collection series.
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| Note |
"The Southwestern Writers Collection Series originates from the Wittliff Collections, a repository of literature, film, music, and Southwestern and Mexican photography established at Texas State University/San Marcos" -- Title page verso. |
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Text on lining papers. |
| Summary |
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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Editor's introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Characters -- The letters. |
| Subject |
Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017 -- Correspondence.
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Dark, Johnny, 1940- -- Correspondence.
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Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Shepard, Sam, 1943-
Correspondence. Selections.
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Dark, Johnny, 1940-
Correspondence. Selections.
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Hammett, Chad, 1972- editor.
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| Added Title |
Two prospectors : the letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark |
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Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark |
| ISBN |
9780292735828 hardback alkaline paper |
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0292735820 hardback alkaline paper |
| Sudoc No. |
Z UA380.8 T930pr txdocs |
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