Days out of Days
Author: Sam Shepard
Publisher: Knopf
Price: $32 (Hardcover)
Shania Twain songs played on repeat plague a man trapped in a Cracker Barrel restaurant, two old friends revive their shared past of drug-fuelled debauchery, and a family can’t leave its turmoil-ridden Minnesota life behind on a southbound vacation in actor and writer Sam Shepard’s latest collection, Day out of Days. The tales within are told through short stories, poems, songs and other brief narrative forms, all charting the lives, experiences and musings of people in the American West. Shepard mixes surrealism and imagination with reality for a snapshot of the country.
