Author: David French
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887849083
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
David French's award-winning plays Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately and Salt-Water Moon are available for the first time in a special one-volume edition, with an introduction by Albert Schultz. Set in the 1950s, Leaving Home tells the story of the Mercers, a Newfoundland family who have emigrated to the mainland and lost all sense of their place in the world. In Of the Fields, Lately, the emotionally charged sequel to Leaving Home, young Ben Mercer returns home after being gone for two years and confronts the family he left behind. Salt-Water Moon was written later than the other two plays but tells the earlier story of the courtship of Jacob and Mary Mercer in Newfoundland. Leaving Home was named one of the 100 Most Influential Canadian Books by the Literary Review of Canada. Of the Fields, Lately won the Chalmers Award in 1973, and Salt-Water Moon won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, and the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics' Award.
Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately, and Salt-Water Moon
Author: David French
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887849083
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
David French's award-winning plays Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately and Salt-Water Moon are available for the first time in a special one-volume edition, with an introduction by Albert Schultz. Set in the 1950s, Leaving Home tells the story of the Mercers, a Newfoundland family who have emigrated to the mainland and lost all sense of their place in the world. In Of the Fields, Lately, the emotionally charged sequel to Leaving Home, young Ben Mercer returns home after being gone for two years and confronts the family he left behind. Salt-Water Moon was written later than the other two plays but tells the earlier story of the courtship of Jacob and Mary Mercer in Newfoundland. Leaving Home was named one of the 100 Most Influential Canadian Books by the Literary Review of Canada. Of the Fields, Lately won the Chalmers Award in 1973, and Salt-Water Moon won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, and the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics' Award.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887849083
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
David French's award-winning plays Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately and Salt-Water Moon are available for the first time in a special one-volume edition, with an introduction by Albert Schultz. Set in the 1950s, Leaving Home tells the story of the Mercers, a Newfoundland family who have emigrated to the mainland and lost all sense of their place in the world. In Of the Fields, Lately, the emotionally charged sequel to Leaving Home, young Ben Mercer returns home after being gone for two years and confronts the family he left behind. Salt-Water Moon was written later than the other two plays but tells the earlier story of the courtship of Jacob and Mary Mercer in Newfoundland. Leaving Home was named one of the 100 Most Influential Canadian Books by the Literary Review of Canada. Of the Fields, Lately won the Chalmers Award in 1973, and Salt-Water Moon won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, and the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics' Award.
Leaving Home
Author: David French
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887846661
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
This is David French's first play and the first part of what has come to be known as the Mercer Series. Leaving Home tells the story of a Newfoundland family that has emigrated and lost all sense of its place in the world. Nominated for the Chalmers Award, Leaving Home is a classic in Canadian drama.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887846661
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
This is David French's first play and the first part of what has come to be known as the Mercer Series. Leaving Home tells the story of a Newfoundland family that has emigrated and lost all sense of its place in the world. Nominated for the Chalmers Award, Leaving Home is a classic in Canadian drama.
Leaving Home
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Languages : en
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Of the Fields, Lately
Author: David French
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887849075
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters all discover something about themselves under this pressure of imminent death. Of the Fields, Lately won the Chalmers Award in 1973.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887849075
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters all discover something about themselves under this pressure of imminent death. Of the Fields, Lately won the Chalmers Award in 1973.
Salt-water Moon
Author: David French
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822213888
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
THE STORY: The time is 1926, the place the front porch of a summer home in the tiny coastal town of Coley's Point, Newfoundland. Mary Snow, a lovely young girl of seventeen, studies the evening sky through a telescope. Her reverie is interrupted by
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822213888
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
THE STORY: The time is 1926, the place the front porch of a summer home in the tiny coastal town of Coley's Point, Newfoundland. Mary Snow, a lovely young girl of seventeen, studies the evening sky through a telescope. Her reverie is interrupted by
Of the Fields, Lately
Author: David French
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887845088
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"A son returns after an absence of two years to find his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters all discover something about themselves under this pressure of imminent death."
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887845088
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"A son returns after an absence of two years to find his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters all discover something about themselves under this pressure of imminent death."
Profiles of Canada
Author: Kenneth G. Pryke
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 1551302268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
This book brings together contributions on a wide range of topics, including regionalism, the North, demography, ethnicity, culture, and sport, to create a comprehensive and interesting introduction to Canadian society. The addition of a short story by Alistair MacLeod is a creative departure from the academic writing of the other chapters. This updated edition is an innovative collection that combines depth, breadth, sophistication, and readability to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of Canada. Contributors include Michael Howlett, Alistair MacLeod, Don Rubin, and Patricia Monture-Angus and subjects include public policy, theatre, minorities, globalisation, and aboriginal women.
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN: 1551302268
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
This book brings together contributions on a wide range of topics, including regionalism, the North, demography, ethnicity, culture, and sport, to create a comprehensive and interesting introduction to Canadian society. The addition of a short story by Alistair MacLeod is a creative departure from the academic writing of the other chapters. This updated edition is an innovative collection that combines depth, breadth, sophistication, and readability to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of Canada. Contributors include Michael Howlett, Alistair MacLeod, Don Rubin, and Patricia Monture-Angus and subjects include public policy, theatre, minorities, globalisation, and aboriginal women.
The Sense of an Ending
Author: Julian Barnes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307957330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
Place Names of Atlantic Canada
Author: William Baillie Hamilton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802075703
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"Atlantic Canada" covers the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802075703
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"Atlantic Canada" covers the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.
Post-Colonial English Drama
Author: Bruce King
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349224367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Post-Colonial English Drama is the first critical survey of contemporary Commonwealth drama. Besides essays on such individual dramatists as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, David Williamson, Louis Nowra, Athol Fugard, George Walker, Sharon Pollock and Judith Thompson there are surveys of the dramatic literature and developments in the theatre in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica and Trinidad. Canadian woman dramatists and the new radical South African theatre are also among the topics.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349224367
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Post-Colonial English Drama is the first critical survey of contemporary Commonwealth drama. Besides essays on such individual dramatists as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, David Williamson, Louis Nowra, Athol Fugard, George Walker, Sharon Pollock and Judith Thompson there are surveys of the dramatic literature and developments in the theatre in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica and Trinidad. Canadian woman dramatists and the new radical South African theatre are also among the topics.