Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
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Author: Sam ShepardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-14
ISBN: 0307274977
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: A
Summary: 5 Stars
With enough symbolism to keep a literary student happily busy for weeks, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play throws you into a surreal world grounded in the decay of the American Dream. The family centered in the drama is dysfunctional, to put it mildly, and is a microcosm of the hopes and eventual destruction of those hopes in America. The action plays out like a combination between American Gothic and Frida Kahlo - based in reality, but little bits here and there remind the audience that they are not in a world structured realistically. Shepard has stunning skills in the way he paints pictures with words. The only gripe is that the motivations of Halie, the matriarch of the family, are never fully developed or explained. Perhaps Shepard's intention was to keep emotions and feelings as buried as the title implies.
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