Cruising Paradise

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the recklessness, stoicism, and solitude of American manhood.

Sam Shepard has written forty-five plays, twelve of which have won Obie Awards. In 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for <i>Buried Child</i>, and in 1984 he gained an Oscar nomination for his performance in <i>The Right Stuff</i>. His screenplay for <i>Paris, Texas</i> won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film <i>Far North</i> in 1988. Other plays by Shephard include <i>Curse of the Starving Class</i>, <i>True West</i>, <i>Fool for Love</i>, and <i>A Lie of the Mind</i>. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>