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Motel Chronicles
Motel Chronicles
Motel Chronicles
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Motel Chronicles

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Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater.

Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

" . . . essential reading. A scrapbook of short stories, autobiographical reveries, poetry and photographs, Motel Chronicles is full of verbal delights, as well as insights into its author's entire canon. Whether Mr. Shepard is reminiscing about his parents or daydreaming about cherished movies and cars of his youth, he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our West. Read in conjunction with the plays, Motel Chronicles also helps demystify the origins of Mr. Shepard's psychological obsessions and desolate frontier iconography."—Frank Rich, New York Times

"If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and half from the works of Sam Shepard."—Time

"Sam Shepard is a shaman—a New World shaman. Sam is as American as peyote, magic mushrooms, Rock and Roll, and medicine bundles."—Jack Gelber

Sam Shepard (1943) is a playwright, actor, author, screen writer and director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child. In 1983, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff. His other famous works include True West, A Lie of the Mind and Curse of the Starving Class. Fool For Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill by Sam Shepard was also published by City Lights Publishers.

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Release dateDec 7, 2020
ISBN9780872868441
Motel Chronicles
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Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard (Fort Sheridan, Illinois, 1942 - Midway, Kentucky, 2017) se convirtió en un mito contemporáneo: polifacético como Boris Vian, legendario como Neal Cassady, amigo y colaborador de los Stones, Patti Smith y Bob Dylan, batería durante años de un grupo de acid rock, actor en películas como Días del cielo y Elegidos para la gloria, coguionista de Zabriskie Point y Paris, Texas, casado con Jessica Lange durante casi treinta años... y, como remate, autor, galardonado con el Pulitzer y el Obie, de más de cuarenta obras teatrales, por las que se le ha llamado el sucesor de Tennessee Williams. En Anagrama ha publicado la novela Espía de la primera persona y Yo por dentro, los libros de relatos Cruzando el paraíso y El gran sueño del paraíso, la obra teatral Locos de amor, los volúmenes misceláneos Luna Halcón, Crónicas de motel y Estados de shock. Al norte. Lengua silenciosa y el libro de crónicas Rolling Thunder: con Bob Dylan en la carretera. Fotografía © Patti Smith

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    Early writings from Shepherd. Snippets of memories. Better writing came later but it was a start on the reflections of his life travelling and working in the western US.
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    The story, and the longest in the collection, tells about the injury to the brain of his mother-in-law Scarlett, Johnny Dark's wife, and their family alliance for all chipping in, bringing her home after surgery, and helping to bring her back into the world. A wonderful story. And one of several well-worth reading in this collection.

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