Running to Paradise

Important Shipping Notice: Due to the ongoing Canada Post strike, delivery times may be longer than usual. Where possible, we’ll use alternative shipping methods to help get your order to you sooner. We appreciate your patience and understanding as your order makes its way to you.

A note to US-based customers: All Lit Up is pausing print orders to the USA until further notice. Read more

Read Excerpt

By (author): Donna Smyth

This one-woman play explores the life of Pulitzer-prize-winning writer Elizabeth Bishop (19111979), setting Bishop in a Halifax hotel room prior to receiving an honourary degree from Dalhousie University in the fall of 1979, shortly before her death. Includes reproductions of eleven black and white photographs.

AUTHOR

Donna Smyth

Donna Smyth lives on an old farm in Hants County, Nova Scotia. In addition to numerous short stories, poems and non-fiction pieces, Smyth has published two novels, Quilt and Subversive Elements, and a young adult novel, Loyalist Runaway, which won the 1992 Dartmouth Fiction Award. Her previous plays include Giant Anna and an adaptation of Alice Through the Looking Glass.

Awards

There are no awards found for this book.

Reader Reviews

Details

Dimensions:

Pages
8in * 5.25in * 0.25in
60gr

Published:

September 01, 1999

Publisher:

Gaspereau Press Ltd.

ISBN:

9781894031134

Book Subjects:

DRAMA / Canadian

Featured In:

All Books

Language:

eng

No author posts found.