{"product_id":"sam-shepard-a-life-1619027089","title":"Sam Shepard: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1619027089\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Winters, John J.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of Americas foremost Renaissance man of letters.\" -Kelly Horan, coauthor of Devotion and DefianceWith more than fifty-five plays to his credit-including the 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child, an Oscar nod for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff, and an onscreen persona thats been aptly summed up as Gary Cooper in denim-Sam Shepards impact on American theater and film ranks with the greatest playwrights and actors of the past half-century.Sam Shepard: A Life gets to the heart of Sam Shepard, presenting a compelling and comprehensive account of his life and work.In a new epilogue, added by the author after Shepards untimely death in July of 2017, John J. Winters offers a glimpse into the enigmatic authors last days, when very few knew he was suffering from ALS.\"An excellent biography . . . Mr. Winters is especially good on the backstage of one of Mr. Shepards most frequently revived works, True West . . . Mr. Winters has an interesting story to tell, and he recounts it ably, bringing us close to a figure who, he admits, avoids intimacy.\" -The Wall Street Journal\"A new, thoroughly researched biography . . . Winters does indeed capture a personality more anxious and self-doubting than previous biographers have grasped.\" -The Washington Post\"Meticulously presents the facts of Shepards complex life along with incisive descriptions and analyses of diverse productions of Shepards demanding and innovative plays . . . Winters portrays Shepard as a magnetic, enigmatic, and multitalented artist drawing on a deep well of loneliness and self-questioning, keen attunement to the zeitgeist, and penetrating insight into human nature.\" -Booklist (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51322862633248,"sku":"NEW1619027089","price":40.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91OO8rC-mEL.jpg?v=1773108801","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/sam-shepard-a-life-1619027089","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}