{"product_id":"true-west-sam-shepards-life-work-and-times-hardcover","title":"True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Greenfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE - A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sam Shepard, whose work was matched by his equally dramatic life, including collaborations with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan as well as tumultuous relationships with Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"What [\u003ci\u003eTrue West\u003c\/i\u003e] achieves in its finest pages is placing the artist in his time. . . . I was filled with excitement, envy and reverence for the New York City that embraced the young Shepard in the 1960s and early '70s.\"--Ethan Hawke, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrue West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those who knew him best. This sweeping biography charts Shepard's long and complicated journey from a small town in Southern California to become an internationally known playwright and movie star. The only son of an alcoholic father, Shepard crafted a public persona as an authentic American archetype: the loner, the cowboy, the drifter, the stranger in a strange land. Despite his great critical and financial success, he seemed, like so many of his characters, to remain perpetually dispossessed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMuch like Robert Greenfield's biographies of Jerry Garcia and Timothy Leary, this book delves deeply into Shepard's life as well as the ways in which his work illuminates it. \u003ci\u003eTrue West \u003c\/i\u003etakes readers through the world of downtown theater in Lower Manhattan in the early sixties; the jazz scene at New York's Village Gate; fringe theater in London in the seventies; Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder tour; the making of classic films like \u003ci\u003eZabriskie Point, Days of Heaven, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Right Stuff;\u003c\/i\u003e and Broadway productions of \u003ci\u003eBuried Child, True West, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFool for Love\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor this definitive biography, Greenfield interviewed dozens of people who knew Shepard well, many of whom had never before spoken on the record about him. While exploring his relationships with Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange across the long arc of his brilliant career, Greenfield makes the case for Shepard as not just a great American writer but a unique figure who first brought the sensibility of rock 'n' roll to theater.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former associate editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone, \u003cb\u003eRobert Greenfield \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several classic rock books, among them \u003ci\u003eS.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as the definitive biographies of Bill Graham, Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, Ahmet Ertegun, Burt Bacharach, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III. An award-winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, he has published short fiction in \u003ci\u003eGQ, Esquire, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756501500192,"sku":"9780525575955","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0231b660ea94245c80633a3d3e000a0e.webp?v=1780080393","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/true-west-sam-shepards-life-work-and-times-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}