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To identify a writer's primary theme, and to analyze how that writer explores that theme in a series of works, is a time-honored, and these days refreshingly sensible, critical strategy. This strategy is well employed by Michael Taav in his illuminating study of father-son conflicts in the plays of Sam Shepard. Shepard's characters behave, or misbehave, in mysterious, seemingly arbitrary ways; without oversimplifying or diminishing, Taav lays bare the emotional logic that underlies their actions. This is a genuinely 'useful' book, able to increase its readers' understanding and enjoyment of Shepard's plays. (Julius Novick, Professor of Literature and Drama Studies, Purchase College, SUNY, Author of 'Beyond Broadway: The Quest for Permanent Theatres') As the first book-length study of Shepard's plays that highlight the father-son relationship, 'A Body across the Map' is an important contribution to the body of scholarship on this major contemporary American dramatist. This exceptionally lucid and insightful work should be of interest to all readers who are serious students of twentieth-century theatre. (Theodore Shank, Professor of Theatre, University of California-San Diego, Editor of 'Theatre Forum')

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The Author: Michael Taav is a playwright, screenwriter, and director whose films have won prizes at the Berlin, Melbourne, Chicago, and Houston International Film Festivals. He has a Ph.D in Theatre and Dramatic Literature from the City University of New York Graduate Center and currently teaches at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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