{"product_id":"conversations-with-sam-shepard-paperback","title":"Conversations with Sam Shepard - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJackson R. Bryer\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert M. Dowling\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMary C. Hartig\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musician (a drummer in three rock bands); a horseman; and a plain-spoken intellectual. The famously private Shepard gave a significant number of interviews over the course of his public life, and the interviewers who respected his boundaries found him to be generous with his time and forthcoming on a wide range of topics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The selected interviews in \u003ci\u003eConversations with Sam Shepard\u003c\/i\u003e begin in 1969 when Shepard, already a multiple Obie winner, was twenty-six and end in 2016, eighteen months before his death from complications of ALS at age seventy-three. In the interim, the voice, the writer, and the man evolved, but there are themes that echo throughout these conversations: the indelibility of family; his respect for stage acting versus what he saw as far easier film acting; and the importance of music to his work. He also speaks candidly of his youth in California, his early days as a playwright in New York City, his professionally formative time in London, his interests and influences, the mythology of the American Dream, his own plays, and more. In \u003ci\u003eConversations with Sam Shepard\u003c\/i\u003e, the playwright reveals himself in his own words.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJackson R. Bryer \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is editor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with Lillian Hellman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConversations with Thornton Wilder \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with August Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConversations with Neil Simon\u003c\/i\u003e, all published in the University Press of Mississippi's Literary Conversations Series. \u003cb\u003eRobert M. Dowling\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eEugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize Finalist for biography in 2015. \u003cb\u003eMary C. Hartig\u003c\/b\u003e is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eConversations with August Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e (published by University Press of Mississippi) and \u003ci\u003eWilliam Inge: Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man \u003c\/i\u003eand coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Facts on File\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCompanion to American Drama\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 326\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47186285920505,"sku":"9781496836618","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dStoT0F2UUtqdTg3MGI3dktnbFBGZz09.webp?v=1767834385","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/conversations-with-sam-shepard-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}