| Smuggling Donkeys Contributor(s): Helwig, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889842949 ISBN-13: 9780889842946 Publisher: Porcupine's Quill OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2007 Annotation: Warren Thouless, recently retired teacher, long-retired actor, aspiring thinker, stuffed up in a small basement room that fell into disorder: that's how the narrator of "Smuggling Donkeys" sees himself. His wife has left him, gone off to someplace in India on a spiritual quest; now and then she sends a postcard. Impelled by some mixture of desolation and high spirits, Warren has let Tessa Niles, a talented and beautiful former student, talk him into buying a deconsecrated church to turn it into a theatre, and he struggles to survive a winter of solitude in the empty building, delivering a comic monologue to an audience of one. Gradually his life takes a new course. With Tessa's assistance he begins to revive his career as an actor. His life becomes its own kind of spiritual quest. Shakespeare and Chekhov and Thornton Wilder provide words for him to speak. The gods (in all their strange variety) hover. He ends his story on the brink of astonishing possibilities. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.76" W x 8.71" (0.40 lbs) 87 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Warren Thouless, recently retired teacher, long-retired actor, aspiring thinker, is stuffed up in a small basement room that fell into disorder. He buys a deconsecrated church to turn it into a theatre, and struggles to survive a winter of solitude, delivering a comic monologue to an audience of one. Gradually, his life takes a new course. |