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.
