Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising
world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live
legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in
Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern
California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician,
dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of
his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders)
Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes
Film Festival. ". . .essential reading. A scrapbook of short
stories, autobiographical reveries, poetry and photographs, Motel
Chronicles is full of verbal delights, as well as insights into its
author's entire canon. Whether Mr. Shepard is reminiscing about his
parents or daydreaming about cherished movies and cars of his
youth, he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our
West. Read in conjunction with the plays, Motel Chronicles also
helps demystify the origins of Mr. Shepard's psychological
obsessions and desolate frontier iconography." Frank Rich, New York
Times "If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would
get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade
and half from the works of Sam Shepard." Time "Sam Shepard is a
shaman a New World shaman. Sam is as American as peyote, magic
mushrooms, Rock and Roll, and medicine bundles." Jack Gelber Sam
Shepard (1943) is a playwright, actor, author, screen writer, and
director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other
theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child. In 1983, he was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The
Right Stuff. His other famous works include True West, A Lie of the
Mind, and Curse of the Starving Class. Fool For Love & the Sad
Lament of Pecos Bill by Sam Shepard was also published by City
Lights Publishers.
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