Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Sam Shepard is the author of more than forty-five plays. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child . He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection Great Dream of Heaven , and he has also written the story collection Cruising Paradise , two collections of prose pieces, Motel Chronicles and Hawk Moon , and Rolling Thunder Logbook , a diary of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour. As an actor he has appeared in more than thirty films, and he received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his performance in The Right Stuff . His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Shepard's plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include Buried Child , The Late Henry Moss , Simpatico , Curse of the Starving Class , True West , Fool for Love , and A Lie of the Mind , which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. He lives in New York.

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Seller: ThriftBooks (US)
Seller's Inventory #: G0307386821I3N10
Title: Kicking a Dead Horse
Author: Sam Shepard
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0307386821
ISBN 13: 9780307386823
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: 2008

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