City Lights BooksSan Francisco

      ©1982 by Sam Shepard

      Designed by Nancy Joyce Peters

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Shepard, Sam, 1943-

      Motel Chronicles.

      I. Title.

      PS3569 .H394M6 1982 818'.5403[B]82-17764

      ISBN 0-87286-144-9

      ISBN 0-87286-143-0 (pbk)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-143-5

      CITY LIGHTS BOOKS are edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters and published at the City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133.

      for my mother

      Jane Elaine

      “never did far away charge so close”

       César Vallejo