Sam Shepard
Paperback | Pages: 76 pages Rating: 3.72 | 7958 Users | 397 Reviews
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| Original Title: | True West |
| ISBN: | 0573617287 (ISBN13: 9780573617287) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Drama (1983) |
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This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee's trashy Western tale.Define About Books True West
| Title | : | True West |
| Author | : | Sam Shepard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 76 pages |
| Published | : | March 26th 2010 by Samuel French, Inc. (first published January 1st 1981) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Fiction. Audiobook. Theatre |
Rating About Books True West
Ratings: 3.72 From 7958 Users | 397 ReviewsWrite-Up About Books True West
The reason I have never read or seen any of Sam Shepard's plays is that I am from Cleveland. When I grew up in that woebegone place, the big news story was about Dr. Sam Sheppard (with two p's) murdering his wife. It was the biggest news story for nearly two decades, and I was thoroughly sick of it.Now that I have washed Cleveland out of my hair (or is it that I just lost most of my hair?), I thought I'd give Shepard (with one p) a chance.True West is about a struggle between two brothers,I'm still trying to let this beautiful play settle in my mind, but one of my resolutions this year is to immediately review everything I read. SO! Here are my initial, somewhat (very) rambling thoughts (trying to keep this vague enough that I don't have to cut it for spoilers):1. Toast. I may never look at toast the same way.2. Brothers/family. The play's treatment of the brothers' relationship was raw and intense. Their somewhat-but-not-quite Cain and Abel rapport was handled in a visceral and
"Go west, young man!"The frontier! The gold rush! The promise of new life in the American imaginary had always (traditionally) been west, away from urbanity, academia, business. Making a new life! Let's forgot about Native Americans for a minute, that American Dream said, there is endless land and resources and possibilities for progress; and for awhile the fantasy seemed to come true for many. "And then, by god, I was rich"--Willy's older brother who goes to Alaska to make his fortune, in Death
Two brothers, one whose life is fairly together and the other, older, who is a drifter and thief. The older brother intrudes on the screenwriting career aspirations of the younger and both spiral out of control. It is a depressing view of sibling drama though well written. The characters were mildly interesting and I give Sam Shepard credit for the structure and delivery.Cannot recommend
I've heard Shepard's plays celebrated for as long as I have been aware of theater and playwrites. I have never read one until now. It is hard to shake the impression that this was just page after page of two brothers yelling at each other. It gets tiresome after a while, that in spite of the fact that this is a short play. It seems to me like it is almost certainly a retelling of the biblical Cain and Abel story. Two brothers of wildly different temperaments find themselves in their mother's
Raw, brutal, intense - no warm fuzzies here. I really want to see/experience this play in the flesh though- there are several scene that just itch for live performance... at the very least I want to see the line-up of toasters. And the final scenes are visceral in their intensity. I think I have to take a shower now.
Most creative use of toast. Ever.
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