TRUE WEST PB – SAM SHEPARD

Austin, an earnest screenwriter on the verge of success, is working on a script he has sold to a Hollywood producer while house-sitting for his mother in LA. When his brother Lee – a drifter and petty thief – decides to stop by, he pitches his own idea for a movie and convinces the producer to ditch Austin s love story for his own trashy Western tale. Now they must work together to secure the deal. But with mistrust and jealousy bubbling under the surface and the heat of a Californian night melting away their inhibitions, their own flaws threaten to get in the way. A modern classic by one of America s most renowned playwrights, True West exposes the cracks in the American Dream.