Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
By Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
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This collection shares decades of correspondence between the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and one of his closest friends—including personal photos.
One of America’s leading dramatists, as well as an accomplished actor, screenwriter, and director, Sam Shepard’s legacy includes immortal plays like True West and Buried Child, as well as memorable film roles, including his Academy Award-nominated performance in The Right Stuff. Though Shepard remained an intensely private man, he wrote candidly about his life and work in letters to his close friend Johnny Dark. His former father-in-law, Dark became a surrogate brother to Shepard, and even an artistic muse. Two Prospectors gathers nearly forty years of correspondence and transcribed conversations between them.
In these letters, the men open themselves to each other with gripping honesty. Shepard’s letters give us the deepest look we will ever get into his personal philosophy and creative process, while in Dark’s letters we discover insights into Shepard’s character that only an intimate friend could provide. The writers also reflect on the books and authors that stimulate their thinking, their relationships with women (including Shepard’s anguished decision to leave his wife and son for actress Jessica Lange), personal struggles, and accumulating years.
Illustrated with Dark’s photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters, Two Prospectors is a compelling portrait of a complex friendship that anchored both lives for decades, a friendship also poignantly captured in Treva Wurmfeld’s film, Shepard & Dark.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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