by Sam Shepard · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099569923
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«Great Dream of Heaven» is Sam Shepard's collection of short stories, published by Vintage in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The seventeen stories are set in the American West and deal with the distance between fathers and sons, men and women, and oneself. A boy witnesses a duel between a healer and an untamable stallion; a woman carries her mother's ashes and finds an injured hawk; two old men fall out over a waitress.
This is the Vintage edition of 18 July 2011, in paperback, 160 pages, text in English.
For readers of literary fiction and short narrative, especially those familiar with Sam Shepard's theatrical work.
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."
