Great Dream of Heaven: Stories - Rilegato

Shepard, Sam

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ISBN 10: 0375405054 ISBN 13: 9780375405051

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

Riassunto

In seventeen pieces of short fiction, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of Cruising Paradise explores such themes as the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between men and women, the chasm that separates men from their own true selves, sex and regret, and the longing for a frontier that is no longer recognizable. 25,000 first printing.

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"These are wonderful stories, by turns intuitive and well-wrought, satisfyingly unpredictable, smart, irreverent, knowledgeable about important human matters, often quite sweet, and at all times a pure pleasure to read. Mr. Shepard absolutely makes the form be his own, and for that reason these stories are irresistible."
--Richard Ford

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Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than forty-five plays as well as the story collection Cruising Paradise and two volumes of prose pieces, Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon. As an actor he has appeared in more than twenty-five films, and he received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Shepard’s plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include Buried Child, The Late Henry Moss, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love, and

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375405054
• ISBN 13: 9780375405051
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 142