Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard

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Sam Shepard

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Curse of the Starving Class Summary

Curse of the Starving Class is a play in three acts by Sam Shepard that tells the story of a dysfunctional family living in a farmhouse they are planning to sell in the hopes of moving on to bigger and better things.

Act 1 opens with Wesley piling broken pieces of the front door into a wheelbarrow, although Ella, his mother, thinks he should leave the pieces for his father to clean...

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November 5, 1943. Samuel "Steve" Shepard Rogers "...plunged into the world head first and, although covered with blood, my attitude was very friendly...."My name came down through seven generations of... Read more