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    Spy of the First Person

    By Sam Shepard

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    The final work from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days
     
    In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator’s memories and preoccupations often echo those of our current moment—for here are stories of immigration and community, inclusion and exclusion, suspicion and trust. But at the book’s core, and his, is family—his relationships with those he loved, and with the natural world around him. Vivid, haunting, and deeply moving, Spy of the First Person takes us from the sculpted gardens of a renowned clinic in Arizona to the blue waters surrounding Alcatraz, from a New Mexico border town to a condemned building on New York City’s Avenue C. It is an unflinching expression of the vulnerabilities that make us human—and an unbound celebration of family and life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9780525521570
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    Spy of the First Person
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    Sam Shepard

    Sam Shepard (Fort Sheridan, Illinois, 1942 - Midway, Kentucky, 2017) se convirtió en un mito contemporáneo: polifacético como Boris Vian, legendario como Neal Cassady, amigo y colaborador de los Stones, Patti Smith y Bob Dylan, batería durante años de un grupo de acid rock, actor en películas como Días del cielo y Elegidos para la gloria, coguionista de Zabriskie Point y Paris, Texas, casado con Jessica Lange durante casi treinta años... y, como remate, autor, galardonado con el Pulitzer y el Obie, de más de cuarenta obras teatrales, por las que se le ha llamado el sucesor de Tennessee Williams. En Anagrama ha publicado la novela Espía de la primera persona y Yo por dentro, los libros de relatos Cruzando el paraíso y El gran sueño del paraíso, la obra teatral Locos de amor, los volúmenes misceláneos Luna Halcón, Crónicas de motel y Estados de shock. Al norte. Lengua silenciosa y el libro de crónicas Rolling Thunder: con Bob Dylan en la carretera. Fotografía © Patti Smith

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    • 4/5
      A man who was extremely talented, incredibly versatile. With these his last words in print, an unnamed narrator takes us through some of his history, things he has seen and thought. His diagnosis, and the way his body betrays him. Wheelchair bound, needing help to do the simplest things, things he could once do easily, he ponders his current situation, and things from the past.This sounds sad I know, but somehow while it was it slso wasn't. The tone is melancholy for sure, but the writing is gorgeous. I think maybe he had made peace with his life, his condition, looking on it as an observer. Anyway that is the sense I received while reading. He will be missed, in the many different roles he played in his life. My reading his last thoughts was the only tribute I could give to this wonderful man, and the enjoyment he had provided many throughout the years.ARC from Edelweiss.
    • 1/5
      Could not get into it
    • 3/5
      A strange, rambling work in the first person, but it seems to be several persons, only it is hard to be sure because the speaker is never identified. It contains no story, no plot, no character development, and appears to be the disjointed thoughts of someone who is in the last stages of his life. If that sounds horrible, well, it wasn't. But it wasn't great, either. I suspect this is the sort of book many people will think they have to see as genius because they don't understand it. I didn't understand it either, but I think because there really isn't anything there to understand. A quick read.
    • 4/5
      A born thinker, artist, and "reflector" on life and presenting it through his writing. Crisp and usually to the point his insights and reflections are sleeved in the climes of the SW and California. Love these short books of Shepherd. This book was a great way to end it. Observing himself and loving his family as he wasted away and died.If I could be so creative and bold.