Fifteen One-Act Plays
An expanded edition of the collection The Unseen Hand and Other Plays
Filled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. In these fifteen one-acts, we see him at his best, displaying his trademark ability to portray human relationships, love, and lust with rare authenticity. These fifteen furiously energetic plays confirm Shepard's status as our most audacious living playwright, unafraid to set genres and archetypes spinning with results that are utterly mesmerizing. Included in this volume:
Ages of the Moon
Evanescence; Shakespeare in the Alley
Short Life of Trouble
The Unseen Hand
The Rock Garden
Chicago
Icarus’s Mother
4H Club
Fourteen Hundred Thousand
Red Cross
Cowboys #2
Forensic & The Navigators
The Holy Ghostly
Back Bog Beast Bait
Killer’s Head
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SAM SHEPARD was the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than fifty-five plays, three story collections, and the novels The One Inside and Spy of the First Person. As an actor, he appeared in more than sixty films, and received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for The Right Stuff. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven. In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy, and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He died in 2017.
Spy of the First Person
Sam Shepard
The One Inside
Sam Shepard; Foreword by Patti Smith
A Particle of Dread
Sam Shepard
Spencer Tracy Is Not Dead
Sam Shepard
Heartless
Sam Shepard
Fifteen One-Act Plays
Sam Shepard
Day out of Days
Sam Shepard
The Unseen Hand
Sam Shepard
Kicking a Dead Horse
Sam Shepard
Buried Child
Sam Shepard
Tooth of Crime
Sam Shepard
The God of Hell
Sam Shepard
Great Dream of Heaven
Sam Shepard
Bad Behavior
Mary Gaitskill
Blue Ruin
Hari Kunzru
Burn
Peter Heller
In the Orchard
Eliza Minot
The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club
J. Courtney Sullivan
The Last Ranger
Peter Heller
Marrying the Ketchups
Jennifer Close
You Have a Friend in 10A
Maggie Shipstead
Harrow
Joy Williams
Phase Six
Jim Shepard
The Guide
Peter Heller
A Bright Ray of Darkness
Ethan Hawke
The Sun Collective
Charles Baxter
Red Pill
Hari Kunzru
Leave Society
Tao Lin
Inheritance
Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn
Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition)
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
The Wife of Willesden
Zadie Smith
A Ballet of Lepers
Leonard Cohen
Damn Shame
David Pevsner
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Mule Bone
Zora Neale Hurston
Red Doc>
Anne Carson
Is This Live?
Christopher Ward
Bolshoi Confidential
Simon Morrison
The Complete Trailer Park Boys
Matthew Sibiga and Don Wininger
The Official Outlander Coloring Book
Diana Gabaldon
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Macbeth
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
William Shakespeare
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World...
David Graeber; edited by Nika Dubrovsky; foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Memories of Distant Mountains
Orhan Pamuk
The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy
Making Love with the Land
Joshua Whitehead
A Book of Days
Patti Smith
Nowhere, Exactly
M.G. Vassanji
Some of My Best Friends
Tajja Isen
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
Care Of
Ivan Coyote
Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology
Various; Edited by Jordan Abel and Carleigh Baker
A Guest at the Feast
Colm Tóibín
A Private Spy
John le Carré; edited by Tim Cornwell
Languages of Truth
Salman Rushdie
Letters of Note: Grief
Compiled by Shaun Usher