Cruising Paradise: Tales - Softcover

Sam Shepard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679742174 ISBN 13: 9780679742173

Publisher: Vintage, 1997

Synopsis

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.

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Review:

Cruising Paradise contains 40 short stories by the renowned playwright and actor Sam Shepard. Exploring themes of solitude and loss, Shepard revisits the innocence of boyhood, traverses the confines of loneliness, gives accounts of the farcical exclusiveness of show business and offers an obstinate perspective on death. As in his stage and screen work, Shepard ties these musings to the wilds and open spaces of Mexico and the United States, utilizing the allure and tempo of the open road to bring his writing and self-actualization full circle.

From the Publisher:

Cruising Paradise is one of the best driving AudioBooks I have ever heard. It's like having Sam Shepard sitting in the seat next to you, telling you stories and flicking ashes out of the window as you're driving along looking for the border.
- Carrie, Random House AudioBooks Publicity

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679742174
• ISBN 13: 9780679742173
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 255