The one inside
By: Sam Shepard ; foreword by Patti Smith
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780451494580
Subjects: Memory; Fiction
Description: Shepard's novel "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 rail yards 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"--