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Goodnight Disgrace

by (author) Michael Mercer

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Jan 1986
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889222380
    Publish Date
    Jan 1986
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

From his wheelchair in a nursing home, the aging Conrad Aiken recalls his long, stormy friendship with Malcolm Lowry. When Aiken is 40, Lowry’s father pays him to tutor the young Malcolm. But the protegé becomes Aiken’s friend, and, gradually, a real literary contender. Mercer’s powerful play reveals the shifts in the two men’s relationship as they struggle with alcoholism, women, creative energy and each other; and as the student metamorphoses into a rival.“I will be the one they remember,” Lowry declares in their final scene together.

About the author

Michael Mercer writes extensively for film and television. His first play, Goodnight Disgrace (1986), won a Chalmers Award in 1986.

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Awards

  • Winner, The Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award