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Author Greenfield, Robert, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Crown, [2023]
©2023

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY SHEPARD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  B SHEPARD, SAM    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO SHEPARD    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B SHEPARD, S.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B SHEPARD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  B SHEPARD SAM G    Missing
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  B SHEPARD SAM G    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-SHEPARD, S.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 432 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-409) and index.
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.
Subject Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Actors -- United States -- Biography.
Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017. (OCoLC)fst00048074
Actors. (OCoLC)fst00796296
Dramatists, American. (OCoLC)fst00897556
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Added Title Sam Shepard's life, work, and times
Other Form: Online version: Greenfield, Robert. True west First edition. New York : Crown, [2023] 9780525575979 (DLC) 2022041267
ISBN 9780525575955 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
0525575952 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9780525575979 (ebook)
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