Great Dream of Heaven: Stories - Softcover

"Extraordinary by any measure. . . . With this collection [Shepard] becomes a storyteller in the purest sense." --The New York Times Book Review

"Devastatingly artful. . . . Brutal and satisfying. . . . In their careful craft and mysterious revelations, the best stories in Great Dream of Heaven recall . . . Chekhov." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Strong emotions . . . make a Sam Shepard story as familiar as an old leather saddle. . . . Shepard's terse, lyrical style excels. . . . There's something broadly American . . . about the frustrations his characters feel." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Shocking. . . . Often funny. . . . Shepard's writing is consistently excellent." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"His playwriting skills . . . make his fiction shimmer with a brutal clarity." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

In eighteen pieces of short fiction, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of Cruising Paradise explores such themes as the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between men and women, the chasm that separates men from their own true selves, sex and regret, and the longing for a frontier that is no longer recognizable. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.