Great Dream of Heaven : Stories
By Sam Shepardn these eighteen elegantly terse stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellsprings that have made him one of our most acclaimedÂ?and distinctly AmericanÂ?playwrights: sex and regret, the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence, the comic gulf of misapprehension between men and women, and the even deeper gulf that separates men from their true selves.
A fascinated boy watches the grim contest between a "remedy man"Â?a fixer of bad horsesÂ?and a spectacularly bad-tempered stallion, a contest that mirrors the boyÂ?s own struggle with his father. A suburban husband starts his afternoon shopping for basil for a party and ends it holding one of the guests at gunpoint in the basement. Two old men, who have lived together companionably since their wives died or left them and their children scattered to Â?silicon computer hell,Â? are brought to grief by a waitress at the local DennyÂ?s.
Filled with absurdity, sorrow, and flinty humor, Great Dream of Heaven is Shepard at his best, exercising his gifts for diamond-sharp physical description and effortless dialogue in stories that recall the themes he has explored with such singular intensity in his work for the theater.
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- Hardcover
- 160 pages
- English
- 0375405054
- 9780375405051
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