Lance Woolaver

In addition to his plays The Poor Farm and World Without Shadows, Lance Woolaver has published a number of fiction and non-fiction books for both adults and children, most notably The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis. He has won the Dartmouth Book Award, the Telefilm Canada Cross-over Award, and the Atlantic Bookseller’s Award. Born in Digby, Nova Scotia, Woolaver now lives and writes in Halifax.



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Brindley Town
Lance Woolaver

2000 / Drama / $12.95
9781894031332 / Trade paper / 96 pp


Edition is out of print

When Bobby Langford arrives in Digby, Nova Scotia, looking for work as a cook on a fishing boat, he finds himself renting a room from Walter Letteney, a nervous eccentric and ne’er-do-well who occupies an old warehouse on the waterfront. What follows is a comic, compelling portrait of two men attempting to reconcile the contradictions of community life. The third play in his Digby County trilogy, Brindley Town continues Woolaver’s investigation of our society’s racial and economic barriers and of the way in which the human spirit sometimes manages to overcome them.

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