Cruel Tears is one of the most original and inventive theatre pieces ever staged in Canada. Shakespeare buffs may see in the play certain intriguing parallels to Othello, but in Cruel Tears, the jealous hero is a Ukrainian truck driver from Saskatoon, not a moor of Venice. Described as a country opera,” the play is written in the idiom of country and western music and features music by the Saskatchewan musical group, Humphrey &amp; Dumptrucks.

Cruel Tears

Literature & Fiction

Mitchell, Ken

Dramas & Plays

Talonbooks

Con Man

Talonbooks, Ltd.

Bob Harlow is an academic; Vern Cugnet, an auto mechanic. Besides this difference, Bob has another distinction: his once pleasant life in Bismarck, North Dakota, is going to hell. Terrible things are befalling Bob, his family and friends: strange infections and nasty infestations, thefts and accidents, one of which is fatal. Bob realizes that the jinx is the result of what happened in Tibet. At the end of a year-long sabbatical boondoggle in China, he took a sidetrip to a remote and sacred region of Tibet known as the Place of the Dead. There, thoughtlessly, he committed sacrilege. He casually pocketed two mani stones - engraved funeral markers - as souvenirs. Since that moment he seems to have been accursed. So now he has no choice. No matter what the obstacles, he must return the sacred objects. Vern Cugnet, naive, crude and indomitable, volunteers to go along and the unlikely companions set out to undo the spell. The trek will take them through China, India and Nepal and involve them in border frays, encounters with holy hermits and bloodthirsty demons, and an audience with the Dalai Lama himself. Stones of the Dalai Lama is an original, mystical and serious comedy about life, the afterlife, and what not to mess with in between.

Stones of the Dalai Lama

Soho Pr Inc

Ken Mitchell, one of Canada's premier story-tellers, returns with this riotous, outrageous retelling of the Cervantes classic, starring Donny Coyote and his recycling depot side-kick, the foul-mouthed and conniving Sandra Douleur. The naïve and good-hearted Donny gains his inspiration not from stories of romantic chivalry, but from superhero comic books. He and Sandra quit their jobs at a recycling depot in Moose Jaw and head south in their trusty Coyote Mobile, a converted welding truck. They see the natural wonders of Yellowstone Park before arriving in the most outrageous place on the continent - Las Vegas.Along the way, Donny determinedly tries to right the wrongs of the world, while Sandra looks for ways to make a fast buck. Donny tilts at wind turbines, steals a wash basin which he mistakes for the helmet of the superhero Flash, and encounters a strange hermit.The Heroic Adventures of Donny Coyote is both a parable and a savagely comic satire of North American values and the need for heroes, all wrapped in an extravagant, hilarious misadventure that is as action-packed and vivid as any comic book.

The Heroic Adventures of Donny Coyote

Contemporary

Coteau Books

Douglas&McIntyre

An American professor from Bismarck, North Dakota, and his garage mechanic buddy set out for Tibet to lift a curse and, in the process, find enlightenment. An irresistible adventure with a Zen heart.

Stones of the Dalai Lama: A Novel

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