Spy of the First Person

The final work from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days

In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator’s memories and preoccupations often echo those of our current moment—for here are stories of immigration and community, inclusion and exclusion, suspicion and trust. But at the book’s core, and his, is family—his relationships with those he loved, and with the natural world around him. Vivid, haunting, and deeply moving, Spy of the First Person takes us from the sculpted gardens of a renowned clinic in Arizona to the blue waters surrounding Alcatraz, from a New Mexico border town to a condemned building on New York City’s Avenue C. It is an unflinching expression of the vulnerabilities that make us human—and an unbound celebration of family and life.

Ultima lucrare a scriitorului, actorului si muzicianului castigator al Premiului Pulitzer, extrasa din zilele sale transformatoare Intr-o proza placuta si frumoasa, naratiunea extraordinara a lui Sam Shepard sare de pe pagina cu imediatitatea si puterea sa. Povesteste intr-o impletitura stralucitoare de voci povestea unui narator nenumit care urmareste, in fata ochilor nostri rapiti, amintirile sale de munca, aventura si calatorii in timp ce este supus testelor medicale si tratamentelor pentru o afectiune care il face din ce in ce mai dependent cei dragi care il ingrijesc.