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      Great Dream of Heaven

      by Sam Shepard
      Published
      Oct 2002
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      In eighteen stories unlike any in our contemporary literature, Sam Shepard explores the vast and rugged American West with the same parched intensity that has made him "the great playwright of his generation" (The New York Times).

      A boy watches a "remedy man" tame a wild stallion, a contest that mirrors his own struggle with his father. A woman driving her mother's ashes across the country has a strangely transcendent run-in with an injured hawk. Two aging widowers, in Stetsons and bolo ties, together make a daily pilgrimage to the local Denny's, only to be divided by the attentions of their favorite waitress. Peering unblinkingly into the chasms that separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives, friends and strangers, these powerful tales bear the unmistakable signature of an American master.

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      Oct 2003 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099443681 ISBN10 0099443686
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      Nov 2003 Vintage ISBN13 9780375704529 ISBN10 0375704523
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      Jul 2011 Vintage ISBN13 9780099569923 ISBN10 0099569922
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      First Edition Oct 2002 Knopf ISBN13 9780375405051 ISBN10 0375405054
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      Nov 2003 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9781417709090 ISBN10 141770909X
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      Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN13 9780307426109 ISBN10 0307426106
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      Dec 2007 Vintage ISBN13 9781407064260 ISBN10 1407064266
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      Apr 2003 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786251940 ISBN10 0786251948
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