A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced in 1978.
SAM SHEPARDwas the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than fifty-five plays, three story collections, and two works of prose fiction. As an actor, he appeared in more than sixty films, and received an Oscar nomination in 1984 forThe Right Stuff.He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collectionGreat Dream of Heaven.In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy, and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He died in 2017.
“Shepard is an uncommon playwright and uncommonly gifted.” –The New
York Times
“Wildly poetic, full of stage images and utterances replete with
insidious suggestiveness.” –New York
“Shepard is one of the most prolific playwrights, and for that
matter, certainly one of the most brilliant.” –New York Post
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