2 prospectors : the letters of Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark / edited by Chad Hammett.

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Series: Southwestern Writers Collection seriesPublisher: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (401 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780292735828 (hardback)
9780292754218 (e-book)

Other title:

Two prospectors : the letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark

Contained works:

Shepard, Sam, 1943- Correspondence. Selections
Dark, Johnny, 1940- Correspondence. Selections

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: 2 prospectors : the letters of Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark.DDC classification:

812/.54 B 23

LOC classification:

PS3569.H394 Z48 2013eb

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Characters -- The Letters -- Caption List -- Index.

Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. It makes a perfect companion to Treva Wurmfeld's recent film, Shepard & Dark"-- Provided by publisher.

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"The Southwestern Writers Collection Series originates from the Wittliff Collections, a repository of literature, film, music, and Southwestern and Mexican photography established at Texas State University/San Marcos."

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Characters -- The Letters -- Caption List -- Index.

"Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. It makes a perfect companion to Treva Wurmfeld's recent film, Shepard & Dark"-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.