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Two Prospectors - The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark (Paperback)
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Two Prospectors - The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark (Paperback)
Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
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Sam Shepard was arguably America’s finest working dramatist, as
well as an accomplished screenwriter, actor, and director. Winner
of a Pulitzer Prize, he wrote more than forty-five plays, including
True West, Fool for Love, and Buried Child. Shepard also appeared
in more than fifty films, beginning with Terrence Malick’s Days
of Heaven, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his
performance in The Right Stuff. Despite the publicity his work and
life attracted, however, Shepard remained a strongly private man
who said many times that he would never write a memoir. But he did
write intensively about his inner life and creative work to his
former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark, who was
Shepard’s closest friend, surrogate brother (they were nearly the
same age), and even artistic muse. Two Prospectors gathers nearly
forty years of correspondence and transcribed conversations between
Shepard and Dark. In these gripping, sometimes gut-wrenching
letters, the men open themselves to each other with amazing
honesty. Shepard’s letters give us the deepest look we will ever
get into his personal philosophy and creative process, while in
Dark’s letters we discover insights into Shepard’s character
that only an intimate friend could provide. The writers also
reflect on the books and authors that stimulate their thinking,
their relationships with women (including Shepard’s anguished
decision to leave his wife and son—Dark’s stepdaughter and
grandson—for actress Jessica Lange), personal struggles, and
accumulating years. Illustrated with Dark’s candid, revealing
photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years,
as well as facsimiles of numerous letters, Two Prospectors is a
compelling portrait of a complex friendship that anchored both
lives for decades, a friendship also poignantly captured in Treva
Wurmfeld’s film, Shepard & Dark.
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Imprint: |
University Of Texas Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University |
Release date: |
October 2013 |
First published: |
2013 |
Authors: |
Sam Shepard
• Johnny Dark
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Editors: |
Chad Hammett
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
399 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-292-76196-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-292-76196-1 |
Barcode: |
9780292761964 |
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