Day out of Days: Stories

Day out of Days: Stories

From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepardâ€™s trademarks.

A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped alone overnight inside a Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he is tormented by an endless loop of Shania Twain songs on the overhead sound system. A wandering actor returns to his hometown against his better instincts and runs into an old friend, who recounts their teenage days of stealing cars, scoring Benzedrine, and sleeping with whores in Tijuana. A Minnesota family travels south for a winter vacation but, caught up in the ordinary tyrannies of family life, remains oblivious to the beauty of the YucatÃ¡n Peninsula. A solitary horse rancher muses on Sitting Bull and Beckett amid the jumble of stuff in his big country kitchenâ€”from rusted spurs and Lakota dream-catchers to yellowing pictures of hawks and galloping horses to â€œsnapshots of different sons in different shirts doing different things like fishing, riding mules and tractors; leaning up against their different mothers at radical angles.â€

Made up of short narratives, lyrics, and dialogues, Day out of Days sets conversation against tale, song against memory, in a cubistic counterpoint that finally links each piece together. The result is a stunning work of vision and clarity imbued with the vivid reverberations of mythâ€”Shepard at his flinty-eyed, unwavering best.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2010-01-12
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307265401

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2010-01-12
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307265401

Day out of Days: Stories

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