Great Dream Of Heaven

by Sam Shepard

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In these seventeen stories, Sam Shepard taps the same wellspring that has made him one of America's most acclaimed playwrights: sex and regret; the yearning for a frontier that has been subdivided out of existence; the anxious gulf that separates men and women; 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 woman driving her mother's ashes back east for burial has...Read more
  • ISBN10 0099569922
  • ISBN13 9780099569923
  • Publish Date 18 July 2011 (first published 7 November 2002)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Vintage
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 160
  • Language English