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Drama Canadian

Fragments from the Big Piece

a play

by (author) Brian Kaufman

Publisher
Anvil Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1991
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781895636024
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $6.95

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Description

Fragments from the Big Piece is a non-linear, stylized play inspired by "eastern bloc" film noir. While exploring the dark underbelly of the drug trade, the play simultaneously tells the story of a man and a woman's crumbling relationship.

Praise for Fragments from the Big Piece:

"A teasing game of metaphysical join-the-dots in a style that recalls Kafka, George F. Walker, David Mamet, and the movie Brazil." (Books in Canada)

"If novelist Thomas Pynchon wrote for the theatre, he might write something like this. It's complex, confusing and fascinating. . ." (Laura Busheikin, The Vancouver Echo)

"Fragments from the Big Piece addresses some big intriguing issues - and attempts to do it in a new theatrical style." (Max Wyman, Vancouver Province)

About the author

Steven Heighton is the author of nine books, including the bestselling novel, The Shadow Boxer (published in five countries); essays: The Admen Move on Lhasa; and poetry: 1995 Governor General's Award finalist The Ecstasy of Skeptic and Stalin's Carnival. He lives in Kingston, Ontario. The Shadow Boxer was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 2000. Afterlands, his second novel, has just appeared with Knopf Canada and will soon appear in the USA, Britain and Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands.

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