Presents seven dark works by American playwright Sam Shepard, which span 1968-1981 and deal with such themes as family disturbances and the loss of American myths; includes "Buried Child" and "Curse of the Starving Class."

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize—winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than twenty-five years ago.
A scene of madness greets Vince and his girlfriend as they arrive at the squalid farmhouse of Vince’s hard-drinking grandparents, who seem to have no idea who he is. Nor does his father, Tilden, a hulking former All-American footballer, or his uncle, who has lost one of his legs to a chain saw. Only the memory of an unwanted child, buried in an undisclosed location, can hope to deliver this family

★鲍勃•迪伦传奇“滚雷”巡演的珍贵文字与图片记录
★美国多栖编剧、普利策奖得主山姆•夏普德作品
★装帧精美独特、富有年代感
1975年秋，鲍勃•迪伦带着他的滚雷巡演团（Rolling Thunder Revue）踏上了一趟将会载入史册的传奇巡演。巡演团人员混杂，有音乐家、歌手、画家等等，其中包括琼尼•米切尔（Joni Mitchell）、米克•朗森（Mick Ronson）、艾伦•金斯堡（Allen Ginsberg）、琼•贝兹（Joan Baez）和杰克•埃利奥特（Ramblin' Jack Elliot），以及本书作者山姆•夏普德（Sam Shepard）。他们犹如一群真正的流浪吉卜赛人，遍踏新英格兰22座城市，巡回演出。山姆•夏普德受雇于鲍勃•迪伦，为计划拍摄的巡演纪录电影撰写剧本。虽然电影从来没有实现，但夏普德记下了这趟旅程中许多弥足珍贵的时刻和感想；而巡演团的官方摄影师肯•雷根则拍下了巡演中一幕幕动人的瞬间画面，构成了这本掩埋于时光沙砾之中的《滚雷日志》。
“那时正值隆冬季节，也正是美利坚历史上最支离破碎的一段，大家在六个星期的时间里不断乘车旅行，表演音乐，拍摄影片。而这一切究竟是为了什么？今天看来已经无足轻重，重要的是这段旅行确实发生了。”
迪伦是我们这个时代的荷马，下一个迪伦或许要等上一千年，也可能永远等不到了。——T骨伯奈特

Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, 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. "Shepard's masterwork.... It tells us a truth, as glimpsed by a 37 year old genius." - New York Post "It's clear, funny, naturalistic. It's also opaque, terrifying, surrealistic. If that sounds contradictory, you're on to one aspect of Shepard's winning genius; the ability to make you think you're watching one thing while at the same time he's presenting another." - San Francisco Chronicle

The final work from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days
In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator’s memories and preoccupations often echo those of our current moment—for here are stories of immigration and community, inclusion and exclusion, suspicion and trust. But at the book’s core, and his, is family—his relationships with those he loved, and with the natural world around him. Vivid, haunting, and deeply moving, Spy of the First Person takes us from the sculpted gardens of a renowned clinic in Arizona to the blue waters surrounding Alcatraz, from a New Mexico border town to a condemned building on New York City’s Avenue C. It is an unflinching expression of the vulnerabilities that make us human—and an unbound celebration of family and life.

The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright—a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life.
This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more, memory is overtaking him: in his mind he sees himself in a movie-set trailer, his young face staring back at him in a mirror surrounded by light bulbs. In his dreams and in visions he sees his late father—sometimes in miniature, sometimes flying planes, sometimes at war. By turns, he sees the bygone America of his childhood: the farmland and the feedlots, the railyards and the diners—and, most hauntingly, his father's young girlfriend, with whom he also became involved, setting into motion a tragedy that has stayed with him. His complex interiority is filtered through views of mountains and deserts as he drives across the country, propelled by jazz, benzedrine, rock and roll, and a restlessness born out of exile. The rhythms of theater, the language of poetry, and a flinty humor combine in this stunning meditation on the nature of experience, at once celebratory, surreal, poignant, and unforgettable.