Can I read True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times on EtoBox?

True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times by Greenfield, Robert is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times about?

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A revelatory biography of the world-famous playwright and actor Sam Shepard, whose work was matched by his equally dramatic life, including collaborations with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan as well as tumultuous relationships with Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange “What [ True West ] achieves in its finest pages is placing the artist in his time. . . . I was filled with excitement, envy and reverence for the New York City that embraced the young Shepard in the 1960s and early ’70s.”—Ethan Hawke, The Washington Post True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times is the story of an American icon, a lasting portrait of Sam Shepard as he really was, revealed by those who knew him best. This sweeping biography charts Shepard’s long and complicated journey from a small town in Southern California to become an internationally known playwright and movie star. The only son of an alcoholic father, Shepard crafted a public persona as an authentic American archetype: the loner, the cowboy, the drifter, the stranger in a strange land. Despite his great critical and financial success, he seemed, like so many of his characters, to remain perpetua

Author

Greenfield, Robert

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group, The

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525575979

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.1 / 5 (67 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14