Day Out of Days: Stories (Hardcover) by Mr. Sam Shepard

from Narboink

This is exactly the kind of collection that one would hope to stumble across while rummaging through Sam Shepard's cupboards. There would be a kind of voyeuristic magic in that scenario. Unfortunately, the brevity of this otherwise engaging melange of miscellany renders the suggested retail price...

from BlackSheepDances

Day Out of Days I felt a sense of guilt as I started reading this collection of short stories by Sam Shepard. It seemed as if I was reading someone's journal, their diary, with all their personal ramblings being exposed to me, a stranger. I got over that, and went on to really enjoy this collecti...

from AlRiske

Lots of great one- and two-page stories in this collection. Vivid scenes of life along the highways of America and Mexcico. Little slices of life (and death). Some of the best stories are pure dialogue. One-act plays, in effect. Others are more like random memories than stories. There are some lo...

from librarianbryan

Shepard is no Barthelme. Some of his recurrent images resonate with me but his attempts to come off as casual and everymanish just feel like lazy writing. What's up with obsession with mutilated heads?