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100 1  Greenfield, Robert,|eauthor. 
245 10 True west :|bSam Shepard's life, work, and times /|cRobert
       Greenfield. 
246 30 Sam Shepard's life, work, and times 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bCrown,|c[2023] 
264  4 |c©2023 
300    xii, 432 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-409) and 
       index. 
520    "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."--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Shepard, Sam,|d1943-2017. 
600 17 Shepard, Sam,|d1943-2017.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00048074 
648  7 1900-1999|2fast 
650  0 Dramatists, American|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Actors|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  7 Actors.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00796296 
650  7 Dramatists, American.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00897556 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
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776 08 |iOnline version:|aGreenfield, Robert.|tTrue west|bFirst 
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