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In this novel set during a small-town apocalypse, the participatory narrator scrambles to keep up with the rush of events.

Go Figure is the hauntingly beautiful tale of a Montreal couple alienated from each other after suffering the miscarriage of twin girls. Mammy, the wife of Rmi Vavasseur, has gone away. Not because she no longer loves him but because she no longer loves herself. She is criss-crossing Europe and Africa in the company of the dangerous and blonde Raa, Rmis former mistress. Meanwhile, Rmi remodels a ramshackle house in rural Quebec, designed for Mammy, if she ever comes back, in flesh and bed. The novel is the journal that he keeps during their parallel journeys.Ducharmes writing, which has contributed to the recasting of the literary canon of Quebec, is full of echoes, juxtapositions and double meanings. With the likes of Marie-Claire Blais, Jacques Godbout and Michel Tremblay, Rjean Ducharme is one of the select qubcois fiction writers who have contributed to the transformation of qubcois letters since the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s.

The audience peers into the goldfish bowl of dysfunction with acute recognition. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.

This prophetic, political drama delivers the powerful and cathartic stillbirth of a nation. Cast of 2 women and 4 men.

Norris constructs odes, elegies, sonnets and long poem sequences, as he travels from Maine to the Mekong River to Montreal.

"The Singer's Broken Throat" is Des Walsh's fourth book of poetry with voices that are always dramatic and present.

Seventeen-year-old Jimmy faces the archetypal Canadian dilemma: stay home in Canada, with all its obvious flaws, or go south (young man) to the Land of Opportunity. Should he stay with his mother at the Bordertown Caf or haul off with his trucker father? Family history is the borders story writ large. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

A collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by drama specialists in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Hungary and elsewhere.

In Birth of a Bookworm, Michel Tremblay takes the reader on a tour of the books that have had a formative influence on the birth and early development of his creative imagination; the physical and emotional world of his childhood is celebrated as the fertile ground on which his new, vivid way of seeing and imagining is built.

"Transnational Muscle Cars" is the second book in Jeff Derksen's trilogy addressing critical geography and contemporary cultural and political theory.

This brilliant collection of satirical short stories explores the evolving corporate construction of reality in the media and information age.

An opera diva newly returned from Paris, her celebrity mother and idealistic daughter. Cast of 3 women and 1 man.

An image of Jesus appears on the side of a Tim Horton's restaurant. Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

This third volume in McFadden's "Terrafina" trilogy is shaped by a wealth of poetic forms.

A chilling look at the interior landscapes of psychosis which mirror perfectly the emptiness of the exterior surfaces they reflect.

An account of Michel Tremblay's discovery of theatre, from his first recognition of the imagination to his first drama-competition win.

Investigates the elements of the spiritual topography of the 20th century and closely examines symbology of the poet's mapmaker ancestors.

bissett's deliciously comic interrogation of the socio-political events towering around us like so many boxes.

Esau Mercer, a WWI veteran, tries to persuade his alienated 16-year-old son, Jacob, not to leave. Cast of 3 men.

The third play in Taylor's farcical examination of Native and non-Native stereotypes. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.

"The Shape of a Girl" and "Jewel" offer sober glimpses into complicated terrain--the teenage world and the offshore oil rig.

Essays in honour of the founding director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.

In "The Vic" an ensemble of different ages and ethnicities explores the power of the victim. Cast of 8 women.

Selections from 19 groundbreaking books of poetry that draw together the best of Norris's lyric poetry over a 25-year period.

Here are the signifiers for a journey: tickets, postcards, enforced idleness, losing one's way and sometimes finding it again.

An active multiple streaming of apparently disparate sources: astronomy, theoretical cosmology and quantum physics, and the literary and visual arts.

In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale remembers by reconstructing for the audience her childhood and coming of age as an African-Canadian in Montreal. Cast of 1 woman.

Canada's first Poet Laureate takes the theme of postmodernity one step further with 23 short stories from across the nation.

The extraordinary story of one of Canada's pioneer peacemakers, crusading socialist and absolute pacifist, Mildred Osterhout Fahrni.