Books from Talon Books
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In the Company of Strangers
By Mary MeigsMary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a "semi-documentary" National film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical...
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Theatre and Autobiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice
By Sherrill Grace, Jerry WassermanThat both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and...
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The Driving Force
By Michel TremblayIn Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer's ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant...
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The Keeper's Daughter: Rose and the Archipelago of Shifting Memories
By Jean-François CaronEveryone here is trying to make sense of the present by volunteering their view on past events, good or bad.
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Anarcho-modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory in Honour of Jerry Zaslove
By Ian H. AngusThis volume is a collection of thirty-eight pieces unified by a combination of the playful, primitive aesthetic of literary modernism with the anti-authoritarian, anarchist praxis of radical democratic politics. This...
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Gargoyles: A Hidden History of Canada
By David FennarioGargoyles: A Hidden History of Canada