The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

8 best books like The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (George Ryga): The Diviners, Titus Andronicus, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Truth and Bright Water, Les Belles-Soeurs, True West, Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

The Diviners

Author	Margaret Laurence
ISBN	0226469352

The Diviners is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle.

This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between...

Titus Andronicus

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0671722921

Literally years after people began suggesting that I do this, I finally got around to reading the damn play. So in the words of Bette Davis: fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Because here's

TITUS ANDRONICUS, ABRIDGED:

TITUS: Man, it's great to be me! I'm an awesome...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Author	Edmund Burke
ISBN	0192835807

An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also...

Truth and Bright Water

Author	Thomas King
ISBN	0802138403

Thomas King is a writer of lyrical, comic poignancy, and a best-selling author in Canada. Of his latest novel, Newsday wrote, "Thomas King has quietly and gorgeously done it again." Truth and Bright Water tells of a summer in the life of Tecumseh and Lum, young Native-American cousins coming of age in...

Les Belles-Soeurs

Author	Michel Tremblay
ISBN	0776100254

Germaine Lauzon, ménagère de Montréal, a gagné un million de timbres-primes. Une bonne occasion pour inviter parentes et amies à une soirée de "collage de timbres". Mais les 15 femmes entassées dans la cuisine n'en restent pas longtemps aux civilités : jalousies, vengeances et haines personnelles...

True West

Author	Sam Shepard
ISBN	0573617287

This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented...

Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing

Author	Tomson Highway
ISBN	0920079555

Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters. Wherein The Rez Sisters the focus was on seven Wasy women and...

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Author	Ann-Marie MacDonald
ISBN	0802135773

In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and Juliet were allowed to live? Constance Ledbelly, a tweedy academic, has ghostwritten the papers of her mentor for years, when suddenly he announces he's marrying a rival. Escaping into her research, Constance decodes the Gustav Manuscript,...