02174cam a2200409 i 4500 340414944 TxAuBib 20180216120000.0 171002s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017956676 9780525521563 0525521569 TxAuBib rda Shepard, Sam, 1943- Spy of the first person / Sam Shepard. Spy of the 1st person. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2017] ©2017. 82 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book.". 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. 20180216. Memory Fiction. Families Fiction. Families. Memory. Novels. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Novels.