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The God of Hell

A Play

By Sam Shepard

By Sam Shepard

By Sam Shepard

By Sam Shepard

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Apr 12, 2005 | ISBN 9781400096510

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Feb 10, 2010 | ISBN 9780307495709

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    About The God of Hell

    Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma.

    Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank’s old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they’re visited by Welch, an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma, and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously long half life.

    About The God of Hell

    Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma.

    Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank’s old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they’re visited by Welch, an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma, and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously long half life.

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    Spencer Tracy Is Not Dead
    Heartless
    See all books by Sam Shepard

    About Sam Shepard

    SAM SHEPARD was the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than fifty-five plays, three story collections, and the novels The One Inside and Spy of the First Person. As an actor, he appeared in more than sixty films, and received an Oscar nomination… More about Sam Shepard

    About Sam Shepard

    SAM SHEPARD was the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than fifty-five plays, three story collections, and the novels The One Inside and Spy of the First Person. As an actor, he appeared in more than sixty films, and received an Oscar nomination… More about Sam Shepard

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Criticism | Literary Collections

    Paperback | $13.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 12, 2005 | 112 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400096510

    Category: Literary Criticism | Literary Collections

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 10, 2010 | 112 Pages | ISBN 9780307495709
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    Praise

    “Startling…. Apocalyptic…. A confident and unsettling scenario of surreal doom.” –The New Yorker

    “A robust new farce that shows Mr. Shepard’s gift for finding deadpan surrealism in bucolic speech.” –The New York Times

    “Deliriously entertaining and deeply scary…. A shivering work of existential mystery.” –Newsday

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