The God of Hell

Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s latest play is an uproarious, brilliantly provocative farce that brings the gifts of a quintessentially American playwright to bear on the current American dilemma.

Frank and Emma are a quiet, respectable couple who raise cows on their Wisconsin farm. Soon after they agree to put up Frank’s old friend Haynes, who is on the lam from a secret government project involving plutonium, they’re visited by Welch, an unctuous government bureaucrat from hell. His aggressive patriotism puts Frank, Emma, and Haynes on the defensive, transforming a heartland American household into a scene of torture and promoting a radioactive brand of conformity with a dangerously long half life.

• Author
• Sam Shepard

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 114

• Publisher
• Vintage

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-1-4000-9651-0

• EAN
• 9781400096510

• Genres
• plays, drama, fiction, american, literature, theatre

• Release date
• 2005