Beaver
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2012
- Category
- Canadian, Women Authors
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887546938
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $15
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770911598
- Publish Date
- Dec 2012
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
A northern Ontario gothic, Beaver follows Beatrice "Beaver" Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ghost of a mother.
About the author
Claudia Dey is a graduate of McGill and the National Theatre School. Her plays, Beaver (2000), The Gwendolyn Poems (2002) and Trout Stanley (2005) have been performed in Toronto, Montreal, New York and Vancouver. The Gwendolyn Poems was shortlisted for the 2002 Governor Generalâ??s Literary Award and a Trillium Award. Dey also the author of the acclaimed novel Stunt.