This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades, among them, the first ever Governor General's award for drama for 'Blood Relations' in 1981. In the four plays in this collection Pollock uses historical backdrops to tackle the issue of freedom of choice in the midst of physical and emotional confinement. Her characters are the oppressed, from the spinster Lizzie Borden in the title play, 'Blood Relations', to the prisoners of 'One Tiger to a Hill', to Leah, 'chosen' daughter/mistress of rum runner Mr Big in 'Whiskey Six Cadenza'. In 'Generations', she uses a regional setting of a prairie farm kitchen to examine the tensions and affections of a family, and their relationship to 'The Land'. Pollock's skilfully driven action and keen ear for dialect make for a satisfying read for drama- and fiction-lovers alike.

Blood Relations: And Other Plays (Prairie Play)

Literature & Fiction

Pollock, Sharon

Dramas & Plays

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Prairie Builder

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Henry Kreisel has been referred to as the Canadian Anton Chekhov. The Almost Meeting is a complete collection of Kreisel’s short fiction written between 1954 and 1980.

The Almost Meeting

KREISEL, HENRY

United States

Another Country: Writings by and About Henry Kreisel (Western Canadian Literary Documents Series Vol 7)

Neuman, Shirley

Real-life stories of First Nations people in Canadian cities rely on individual voices and words to convey a sense of the difficulty, diversity, joy, and pride in being a contemporary urban Native.

Without Reserve: Stories from Urban Natives

Politics & Social Sciences

Shorten, Lynda

Social Sciences

The reader will experience first-hand the personality, characteristics, and sometimes remote environment of these healers, visionaries, storytellers, and spiritualists through Dianne Meilis faithful re-telling of the interviews she conducted with each during the two years she spent travelling throughout Alberta.

Those Who Know: Profile of Alberta's Native Elders

History

Meili, Dianne

Americas

Aritha van Herk explores other texts, other bodies, other moments arising from the otheredness of the writer in the uneasy position of critic&#46

In Visible Ink: Crypto-Frictions (The Writer As Critic Series ; V. 3)

Van Herk, Aritha

Essays & Correspondence

Based on fifteen years of her own journal entries, the author explores her scattered memories of being sexually abused by her father and grandfather and the impact of this abuse upon her relationship with her mother&#46

White Lies (For My Mother)

Potvin, Liza

Community & Culture

The Woman Upstairs

Riskin, Mary Walters

This biographical account of the lives of the Freelands by their daughter begins with their 1913 winter trek to the hinterlands of Peace River from Edmonton to purchase a hotel sight unseen.

The Long Trail: The Story of a Pioneer Family

Baldwin, Beulah

Historical

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