The One Inside - A Novel

Zusatztext 48726606 Informationen zum Autor Sam Shepard  was the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than fifty-five plays and three story collections. As an actor! he appeared in more than sixty films! and received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for  The Right Stuff . He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collection  Great Dream of Heaven . In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College! Dublin. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters! received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy! and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. He died in 2017. Klappentext The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-a tour de force of memory! mystery! death! and life. This searing! extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn! surrounded by aspens! coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly navigates the distance between present and past. More and more! memory is overtaking him: in his mind he sees himself in a movie-set trailer! his young face staring back at him in a mirror surrounded by light bulbs. In his dreams and in visions he sees his late father-sometimes in miniature! sometimes flying planes! sometimes at war. By turns! he sees the bygone America of his childhood: the farmland and the feedlots! the railyards and the diners-and! most hauntingly! his father's young girlfriend! with whom he also became involved! setting into motion a tragedy that has stayed with him. His complex interiority is filtered through views of mountains and deserts as he drives across the country! propelled by jazz! benzedrine! rock and roll! and a restlessness born out of exile. The rhythms of theater! the language of poetry! and a flinty humor combine in this stunning meditation on the nature of experience! at once celebratory! surreal! poignant! and unforgettable. The One Inside They’ve murdered something far off. Fighting over it. Yes. Screaming. Doing their mad cackle as they tear into its softness. He’s awake—­5:05 a.m. Pitch black. Distant coyotes. Must’ve been. He’s awake, in any case. Staring at rafters. Adjusting to “place.” Awake, even after a full Xanax, in anticipation of small demons—­horses with human heads. All small, as though life-­size were too big to fathom. His dogs are on the muscle, howling from the kitchen in feral imitation. Vicious cold again. Blue snow biting at the windowsills: glowing in what’s left of the full moon. He throws the blankets back with a bullfighter’s flourish and swings both bony knees out into the raw air. He comes, almost immediately, to a straight-­backed sitting position, both hands flat on his thighs. He tries to take in the ever-­changing landscape of his body—­where he resides? Which part? He peers down at his very thick, blue, thermal hiking socks, pilfered from some movie set. Piece of some costume—­some character, long forgotten. They’ve come and gone, these characters, like brief, violent love affairs: trailers—­honey wagons—­morning burritos—­craft service tents—­phony limousines—­hot towels—­4 a.m. calls. Forty-­some years of it. Too big. Hard to believe. Too vast. How did I get in here? His aluminum trailer rocks and sways in the howling Chinooks. His young face staring back at him through a cheap 4 x 4 mirror, surrounded by bare light bulbs. Outside, they’re shooting film of grasshoppers, falling in great swirling cones from the belly of a rented helicopter. They actually are. In the background—­winter wheat, as big around as your thumb, blows in rolling waves. Now, perched on the very edge of his firm mattress, staring down at his thick blue socks, white puffs of breath vaporizing in the morning dark, he knows it’s all come true. He just sits like that for a while—­straight-­backed. A great blue heron waiting for a frog to rise. The house doesn’t creak; it’s made of co...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sam Shepard, Patti Smith
• Con la collaborazione di: Patti Smith (Prefazione)
• Editore: Knopf
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780451494580
• ISBN: 978-0-451-49458-0
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 224 mm x 21 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi