Great dream of heaven
Subtitle: stories
By: Sam Shepard.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In these eighteen stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellsprings that have made him one of our most acclaimed - and distinctly American - playwrights: sex and regret, the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence, the comic gulf of misapprehension between men and women, and the even deeper gulf that separates men from their true selves.".

"A fascinated boy watches the grim contest between a "remedy man" - a fixer of bad horses - and a spectacularly bad-tempered stallion, a contest that mirrors the boy's own struggle with his father. A suburban husband starts his afternoon shopping for basil for a party and ends it holding one of the guests at gunpoint in the basement.

Two old men, who have lived together companionably since their wives died or left them and their children scattered to "silicon computer hell," are brought to grief by a waitress at the local Denny's."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: The remedy man; title: Coalinga 1/2 way; title: Berlin Wall piece; title: Blinking eye; title: Betty's cats; title: The door to women; title: Foreigners; title: Living the sign; title: The company's interest; title: Concepción; title: It wasn't Proust; title: Convulsion; title: An unfair question; title: A frightening seizure; title: Tinnitus; title: The stout of heart; title: Great dream of heaven; title: All the trees are naked.