by Sam Shepard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722905831
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«Crónicas Americanas» is Sam Shepard's book of autobiographical chronicles, published by Difel in paperback (184 pages, in Brazilian Portuguese).
Brief autobiographical chronicles: birth in Illinois, childhood at the Guam military base, Pasadena and Southern California, and trades as rancher, waiter, rock musician, playwright and actor. These themes underpin Superstitions and Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders' film with a script by Shepard that won the Palme d'Or in 1984.
Original title: Motel Chronicles, originally published in 1982. This edition is from April 2002.
For fans of autobiographical literature and the work of Sam Shepard, linked to theatre and cinema.
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, and a record 10 Obie Awards. He was nominated for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. The New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
