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{"id":6811232600123,"title":"Tamara","handle":"tamara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d’Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state. The action is directed by the reader\/audience member, who decides which characters to follow and which narratives to experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Krizanc’s masterpiece redefined theatre and won six L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, six Drama-Logue Awards, and six Mexican Association of Theatre Critics, and Journalists Awards for its original productions. Now available in a handsome new A List edition, \u003cem\u003eTamara \u003c\/em\u003eis an astonishing piece of experimental art and a penetrating look into ethical choices in times of encroaching autocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T12:08:18-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:48:17-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["A List","By (author) Krizanc John","pub date: 2021-08-03"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":1999,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40190665949243,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008482","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tamara - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":1999,"weight":448,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487008482","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190666309691,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008499","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Tamara - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487008499","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_25c82671-0a9d-4fc8-99e7-402f6b112e37.jpg?v=1652626956"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_25c82671-0a9d-4fc8-99e7-402f6b112e37.jpg?v=1652626956","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22065789993019,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_25c82671-0a9d-4fc8-99e7-402f6b112e37.jpg?v=1652626956"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_25c82671-0a9d-4fc8-99e7-402f6b112e37.jpg?v=1652626956","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d’Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state. The action is directed by the reader\/audience member, who decides which characters to follow and which narratives to experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Krizanc’s masterpiece redefined theatre and won six L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, six Drama-Logue Awards, and six Mexican Association of Theatre Critics, and Journalists Awards for its original productions. Now available in a handsome new A List edition, \u003cem\u003eTamara \u003c\/em\u003eis an astonishing piece of experimental art and a penetrating look into ethical choices in times of encroaching autocracy.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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It’s the first really new approach to theatre in I don’t know how long.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"John Huston, film director, screenwriter, actor, and visual artist","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe influence of \u003cem\u003eTamara\u003c\/em\u003e can be seen in works such as the popular non-linear play \u003cem\u003eSleep No More\u003c\/em\u003e and the interactive film \u003cem\u003eBlack Mirror:Bandersnatch\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eTamara\u003c\/em\u003e has been praised by publications including \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e magazine.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eIn a talk with J. J. 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The play becomes a multi-levelled examination of the effect of repression on art — filled with decadence, fear, sterility, and impotence.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_11_Src":"Vancouver Province","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Los Angeles Times","OtherText_Review_2":"A spectacle that leaves theatregoers gasping!","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"People","OtherText_Review_3":"Sizzling time for sensualists and gourmands.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"New York Magazine","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTamara\u003c\/em\u003e is a shot of adrenaline.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_5":"At once a delightful game, a masterful whodunit.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Village Voice","OtherText_Review_6":"Innovative . . . Revolutionary.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Christian Science Monitor","OtherText_Review_7":"Boundary-busting . . . The playlets are so cleverly and strongly written that each one gives you a new piece of the puzzle.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_8":"John Krizanc’s play is literate, intricate, astonishing, and boldly, unabashedly theatrical . . . It glints with subtle perceptions, illuminations, snappy dialogue . . . Its brilliant varied strands are woven seamlessly into a gorgeous tapestry that becomes a net of allurement . . . Tamara is magnifico, history-making, the theatrical event of the year. Maybe of many years.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Drama-Logue","OtherText_Review_9":"A veritable hotbed of sex and politics, a hothouse of passions and violence. An intimacy unlike any other play seen before. 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Tamara
Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy.
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{"id":6811232206907,"title":"Manikanetish","handle":"manikanetish","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Naomi Fontaine’s Governor General’s Literary Award finalist, a young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students, reminding us of the importance of hope in the face of despair.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, has come back to her home in Uashat, on Quebec’s North Shore. She has returned to teach at the local school but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to help her students. When she accepts a position directing the end-of-year play, she sees an opportunity for the youth to take charge of themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn writing both spare and polyphonic, Naomi Fontaine honestly portrays a year of Yammie’s teaching and of the lives of her students, dislocated, embattled, and ultimately, possibly, triumphant.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-03-21T12:08:14-04:00","created_at":"2022-03-21T09:47:20-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Arachnide Editions","BIPOC Voices","By (author) Fontaine Naomi","Literary Fiction","pub date: 2021-09-28","Translated by von Flotow Luise"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40190665195579,"title":"trade paperback with flaps","option1":"trade paperback with flaps","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008147","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Manikanetish - trade paperback with flaps","public_title":"trade paperback with flaps","options":["trade paperback with flaps"],"price":2299,"weight":195,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487008147","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":40190665457723,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487008154","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Manikanetish - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487008154","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1fb8dfba-0051-434a-8d2e-09c9b8cefe1b.jpg?v=1657432975"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1fb8dfba-0051-434a-8d2e-09c9b8cefe1b.jpg?v=1657432975","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":22340341006395,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"width":1575,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1fb8dfba-0051-434a-8d2e-09c9b8cefe1b.jpg?v=1657432975"},"aspect_ratio":0.656,"height":2400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1fb8dfba-0051-434a-8d2e-09c9b8cefe1b.jpg?v=1657432975","width":1575}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn Naomi Fontaine’s Governor General’s Literary Award finalist, a young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students, reminding us of the importance of hope in the face of despair.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, has come back to her home in Uashat, on Quebec’s North Shore. She has returned to teach at the local school but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to help her students. When she accepts a position directing the end-of-year play, she sees an opportunity for the youth to take charge of themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn writing both spare and polyphonic, Naomi Fontaine honestly portrays a year of Yammie’s teaching and of the lives of her students, dislocated, embattled, and ultimately, possibly, triumphant.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Manikanetish
A young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art.
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Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth
In stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life.
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The Waking Comes Late special hardcover edition
This specially designed and bound hardcover First Edition of Steven Heighton's poetry collection The Waking Comes Late is limited to 50 copies.
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Die Walking
In the spirit of Night by Elie Wisel, Die Walking is the memoir of a Rwandan boy escaping genocide.
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Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2024
The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best poetry published in English from the shortlist of the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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And most of all, respect your trainers and opponents,” Mushom instructs me while he examines my hands. “Respect your body. Know your body. If it hurts, that’s your body speaking to you. … You will need to listen to your body. It will tell you when to go on, when to push through and when to stop.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe grabs a handful of my crazy hair and tries to tie it back the best he can, struggling to gather all of it with an elastic band. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m so excited my hands are sweating. I still can’t believe this is happening. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“That was your mom’s problem. She could never listen.” He laughs. “If you want to box, you need to know how to listen and follow directions.” He lifts my chin and looks into my eyes. “Understood?” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI nod. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe smiles at me and places an old wooden-handled mop and a rusty metal pail sloshing with water in my hands. 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Trinity Street
Heartsick, reverent, irreverent, and quietly political, Trinity Street is the much-anticipated fifth collection from acclaimed poet Jen Currin.
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Catch Me If I Fall
Twins Ashleigh and Aiden have always promised to protect each other, but after an accident during a school trip, their world begins to unravel.
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Malaika’s Winter Carnival
When Malaika moves to a cold northern city, there's a lot to get used to, especially Carnival in the wintertime!
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When I Listen to Silence
When a child is asked to “Please, be quiet!” they sit silent … and their imagination sweeps them away on a breathtaking journey.
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ages 3
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
Nice Try, Charlie!
A new picture book about friendship and community from Matt James, acclaimed author and illustrator of The Funeral.
