Lion in the Streets - Softcover

Thompson, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770912746 ISBN 13: 9781770912748

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 2015

Synopsis

An enduring classic that looks at the inner emotional turmoil in ordinary people and the ways in which they cope. Seventeen years ago, Isobel was murdered at the age of nine. Now she finds herself back in her previous life as a ghost searching for the person responsible. Will she finally get the peace she's been yearning for?

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Thompson is a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for White Biting Dog and The Other Side of the Dark. In 2006 she was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada and in 2008 she became the first Canadian to be awarded the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play Palace of the End. Judith is a professor of drama at the University of Guelph and lives in Toronto.

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“Lion in the Streets, like all her plays, betrays an abiding interest in psychological motivation, and evokes immediate empathy for characters who are conceived in depth... The conflicts in Lion in the Streets, far from moving towards resolutions that leave characters and audiences satisfied that things must be as they are, present occasions for potential—and potentially redemptive—transformation.”
—Ric Knowles, from the introduction to the first edition (2014-04-07)

About this edition

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1770912746
• ISBN 13: 9781770912748
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128