Billy Bishop Goes to War - Softcover

MacLachlan Gray, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889221960 ISBN 13: 9780889221963

Publisher: Talonbooks, 1982

Synopsis

Billy Bishop Goes to War ranks as one of Canada’s most successful and endearing musical dramas in history. The Governor General’s Award-winning musical documents the glorious World War I exploits of Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop.

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About the Author

John Gray
John Gray is the author of a novel, many magazine articles, and several stage musicals, a book on tattoos, Lost in North America: The Imaginary Canadian in the American Dream (1994), Local Boy Makes Good (1987) and the internationally acclaimed Billy Bishop Goes to War (1982) with Eric Peterson. He has contributed sixty-five satirical pieces for The Journal on CBC Television, and is a frequent speaker on cultural issues. Among his many awards are the Governor General’s Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award and the National Magazine Award.

Review

“ Billy Bishop is a high-flying ace of a show, capturing the humour, the hellfire and the derring-do of an extraordinary career ... The score is filled with vintage replicas of the kind of songs that sent men rushing in―and out―of battle. There are martial airs, barracksroom ditties, Kiplingesque tunes of glory, Gilbert and Sullivan-like patter songs and also a bitter brew of Brecht-Weill.”
― New York Times

“ Billy Bishop Goes to War is a delightful―and cunningly wrought―work of art.”
― New Yorker

“A landmark of the Canadian theatre ... John Gray’s success with Billy Bishop lies in the universality of the human individual―a universality that works precisely because Gray has kept the show on one-individual terms. He creates and deflates the hero myth in the same gesture.”
― Vancouver Sun

Billy Bishop is a high-flying ace of a show, capturing the humour, the hellfire and the derring-do of an extraordinary career The score is filled with vintage replicas of the kind of songs that sent men rushing in and out of battle. There are martial airs, barracksroom ditties, Kiplingesque tunes of glory, Gilbert and Sullivan-like patter songs and also a bitter brew of Brecht-Weill.”
New York Times

Billy Bishop Goes to War is a delightful and cunningly wrought work of art.”
New Yorker

A landmark of the Canadian theatre John Gray’s success with Billy Bishop lies in the universality of the human individual a universality that works precisely because Gray has kept the show on one-individual terms. He creates and deflates the hero myth in the same gesture.”
Vancouver Sun

About this edition

• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0889221960
• ISBN 13: 9780889221963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104