Great Dream of Heaven

In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him "the great playwright of his generation" (The New York Times).

A boy watches a "remedy man" tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A woman driving her mother's ashes across the country has a strangely transcendent run-in with an injured hawk. Two aging widowers, in Stetsons and bolo ties, together make a daily pilgrimage to the local Denny's, only to be divided by the attentions of their favorite waitress. Peering unblinkingly into the chasms that separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives, friends and strangers, these powerful tales bear the unmistakable signature of an American master.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/11/2003
ISBN: 9780375704529
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.42d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/16/2003 pg. 60
Kliatt 03/01/2004 pg. 28