CECILIA: Your money’s all here. You can count it if you want to. I only used a little bit for sandwiches and tea. I’ll pay you back, I promise. You should have told me the Derby was in May, Mr Carter. Why would you lie about something as simple as that?

CARTER’s phone begins to ring. They both stare at it.

CECILIA: Do you want me to answer that?

Pause. CARTER just stares at phone. CECILIA moves to exit, stops and turns back to CARTER. Pause.

CECILIA: Somebody ought to answer that.

She exits. Phone keeps ringing. CARTER keeps staring at it without moving to answer. He shakes in his blanket as lights dim slowly. Phone rings into the blackness then stops.

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ALFRED A. KNOPF

CRUISING PARADISE
Tales by Sam Shepard

A boy travels to a desolate roadside inn to retrieve the charred mattress on which his drunken father burned to death. A mortified actor is stonewalled by a female bureaucrat in a Mexican border town—until he identifies himself as Spencer Tracy. A man and a woman quarrel desperately in a South Dakota motel room and part company for reasons that remain mysterious to them both. Written with the terse lyricism that has become his trademark, Sam Shepard’s tales are at once acts of personal revelation and signposts to an American landscape shaped by violence, loss, and regret. Together they present their author’s singular vision of ancestry and childhood, sexual passion and betrayal, family and fame, in a voice that is spare and quintessentially American.

Fiction/0-679-41564-5

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THE UNSEEN HAND
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