Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill, Sam Shepard

Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill

Sam Shepard

Publisher: City Lights Publishers
PubDate: 12/1/1983
ISBN: 9780872861503
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $8.95
Temporarily Out of Stock
Pages: 150
 

Drama.

Fool For Love
In a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told.

The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife
Another kind of love story, this comic operetta takes a distaff view of the Southwest's legendary cowpuncher and his mate Slue-foot Sue, with irreverent commentary on American heroes and heroics.

"No one knows better than Sam Shepard that the true American West is gone forever, but there may be no writer alive more gifted at reinventing it out of pure literary air."—Frank Rich, The New York Times

"Mr. Shepard is the most deeply serious humorist of the American theater, and a poet with no use whatever for the 'poetic.' He brings fresh news of love, here and now, in all its potency and deviousness and foolishness, and of many other matters as well."—Edith Oliver, The New Yorker

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