Sam Shepard: a life

Discovery

Beginnings

The dark muse/Father

The rock/Mother

Go west

On the road

Arriving

Genesis

"Generally acknowledged genius"

Musical interlude

New territory

Early film work (1968-1970)

Dazed and confused (1968 and 1969)

New directions

Patti

Mad dogs, splits, and more (1971 continued)

Gurdjieff

London

Mill Valley days

Dylan

Heavenward (1976)

Family matters

You can't go home again

True brothers

"Stuff"

Jessica: the beginning

Fools for love

"Paris"

"Between two deaths"

Between two families

"Dancing around the grave?"

"Action!"

War story

Take two

Losing game

At last, paradise

"Blue" days

"Late" show

"Hell"

A late trilogy

Break

Stumbling

The road ahead.