- Theater, Actors, Stratford Festival (Ont.), Fiction
"On a summer evening in Stratford, Ontario, the errant thrust of a gardener's spade slices a telephone cable into instant silence. The resulting disconnection is devastating. With the failure of one call to reach the house, an ambitious young actor becomes the victim of sexual blackmail.
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Contemporary, grave, relentless and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Timothy Findley
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 411
- Publisher
- Le Serpent à plumes, HarperCollins Publishers, Serpent A Plumes
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9782842614058
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- Theater
- Actors
- Stratford Festival (Ont.)
- Fiction
- Ontario, fiction
- Actors, fiction
- Fiction, romance, contemporary
- Stratford Festival (Ontario) fast (OCoLC)fst01410664
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- Théâtre
- Acteurs
- Stratford Festival (Ont.) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50023400 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n50023400
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC OOnt, was a Canadian novelist and playwright. *--Wikipedia*
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