SAM SHEPARD: PLAYS 2 - Faber

Sam Shephard has been described by the New Yorker as 'one of the most original, prolific and gifted dramatists at work today'. Here are seven of his finest plays, including True West and the Pulizter Prize-winning Buried Child. True West: 'A mythic study of fraternal division...What makes the play so rich is Shepard's profound understanding of the spiritual incompletensess of each brother and, by extension, of the American experience.' -Guardian- Buried Child: The play has a 'rythmic sense of speech and imagery that finds the dark, scary poetry behind every domestic arrangement...a starlingly visceral experience...it operates successfully on so many levels that you get dizzy watching it' -New York Times- The volume is introduced by Richard Gilman, who provides a fascinating profile of the author and places the plays in the context of contemporary American drama.