num_pages: 110
description: Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
language: English
title: Motel Chronicles
titlecomplete: Motel Chronicles
genres: Theatre, Classics, Plays, Fiction, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Westerns, Poetry, American, Americana
ratings_count: 1394
publisher: City Lights Books