Trout Stanley Contributor(s): Dey, Claudia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1552451623 ISBN-13: 9781552451625 Publisher: Coach House Books OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Drama | Canadian - Drama | Women Authors |
Dewey: 812.6 |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.72" W x 8" (0.45 lbs) 80 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Described by Variety as 'Yukon Gothic, ' Claudia Dey's acclaimed play Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are not identical in any way: Sugar, a complicated, insecure waif who still wears the tracksuit her mother died in ten years prior, and Grace, a rough-and-tumble hellcat who owns the local dump. At the play's opening, it is their thirtieth birthday, and the TV news has announced the disappearance of a local Scrabble-champ stripper. While Grace is at the dump, housebound Sugar is surprised by a mysterious drifter, one Trout Stanley, foot fetishist and fake cop, who is searching for the lake where his parents drowned - a fishy story if there ever was one. He quickly becomes mired in a surreal love triangle with the two sisters. Trout Stanley is about three people who confuse codependence for co-operation and affliction for affection. An eccentric, captivating story in which the biggest catch of all is love. Lavishly illustrated by Jason Logan. |