Spy of the First Person.
New York: Knopf, 2017. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy with discreet remainder dot in a Fine dust jacket. In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary final 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. Item #28224
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