Title: A body across the map
First published: 2000
Description: "A Body Across the Map focuses on the character conflict central to Shepard's most significant plays: that between fathers and sons. Beginning with The Rock Garden and concluding with A Lie of the Mind, this analysis shows how Shepard's worldview has evolved over a 20-year span.

A long-standing pessimist who saw Oedipal revenge as a necessity, and genetic determination as inescapable, Shepard ultimately disavows these dark worldviews in favor of one where gentleness, spiritual generosity, cooperation, and the acceptance of long-denied truths prevail over rage, self-interest, and biological predestination."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fathers and sons in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Shepard, sam, 1943-2017
People: Sam Shepard (1943-)
LC classification: PS3569.H394 Z895 2000